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From: bewing@kean.mun.ca
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: e-style prelim report
Message-ID: <23872@kean.mun.ca>
Date: 29 Oct 89 23:29:48 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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After reading the Rand report on network etiquette , we
found that they have covered some of the issues that were
of concern to us when we initiated our study into e-style;

the use of abbreviations and smilies can help to informalize 
the communication when this is required; IOO [in our opinion]
much of the communication that takes place on bitnet is of
a informal nature; a discussion between parties interested
in a particular issue;  we lack the face-to-face
aspect that a conference, workshop or similar forum
would provide and as our words appear in type they take
the more formal print form. smileys lend some face-to-face
aspects and can include feelings. abbreviations such as IOO
help keep the content in perspective ; however, as Rand
suggest this may not be enough so perhaps we can omit
normal grammar rules such as capitalization; meaning
cannot be scarificed but an occasional typo does no
harm; we realize this may be a difficult cocnept for
educators and others to accept but we are dealing
with a new medium, relatively speaking, and we feel that
a new way of communicating requires new rules.

Comments are most welcome.  :-)

Bob ewing 

Jocelyn J. Paquette