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  • From: Joe Hecksel <jhecksel@voyager.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] e-mail lists
  • Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:29:09 -0500

Well said, Lon:

Those of us on the receiving end of emails cannot see the arching eyebrows, the twinkling of eye or hear the drollness of tone. Real life conversation is a wide-screen, surround-sound medium. Email is peering into a dimly lit room via a key hole.
Also, spoken conversation is replete with redundancy to reinforce or nuance meaning. I offer email buddies MUCH latitude as most of us are not professional writers who finesse their writing to the third drafts before hitting the SEND button. Email is a first draft media and most of us are not professional writers.

All these electrons used.....and I must confess there are a few writers who I filter. It is just too hard for me to read their "stuff". Perhaps to our mutual loss. Oh well, we all do what we must.

-Joe

Lon Rombough wrote:

A thought to consider. When you start a flame war on an e-mail list, your words don't just go away. ALL the list members get them, so you are exposing your anger to dozens if not hundreds of people. Would you want someone else's anger in YOUR computer? And the words are in the archives for a LONG time to come.
Think several times before you send something to a list that is anything less than polite and good.

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