Re: Style question: "war dial" vs. "wardial" vs. "war-dial"

["Paul Goble" <pg -at- pgcommunication -dot- com>]

As usage becomes more common, compound words often progress from two 
separate words, to a hyphenated word, to a single word.  If the term
"war dial" was becoming more common, I might lean toward "war-dial"
to future-proof my writing.  But, in my opinion, war dialing will soon
be a thing of the past, not a future trend.*  So the evolution from
"war dial" to "war-dial" to "wardial" is probably arrested at
the "war dial" stage.

War dialing's wireless sibling, war driving, on the other hand, has 
already matured to "wardriving".  

* Modems?  Connected to the same PC as a network?  Not too common
anymore (he writes as he braces for an onslaught of "but I'm
sitting in front of one right now" messages).  Google finds a bunch of 
phrases like "war dialing was" and "the old days of war dialing".
Just a few pages are countering with "war dialing is still".
 
Paul