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From: obh@ifi.uio.no (Ole Bj|rn Hessen)
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Subject: Re: Re: Printable format (was: Re: ISO/CCITT meeting report)
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In article <9008201119.aa09713@ICS.UCI.EDU>,
JENNINGS%IRLEARN@pucc.princeton.edu (Dennis Jennings) writes:
> Would it be all too unreasonable to suggest that the business card
> address and the e-mail address are one and the same thing, and that

E-mail is a fundamental different media. It is much more interactive
and spontaneous than snail-mail. In some ways it is comparable to
communicating by telephone.

> Personal Name                   Dennis M. Jennings
> Functional Name                 Director, Computing Services
> Organisational Unit             Computing Services
> Organisation/PRMD               University College Dublin
> <local postal bits>             <Belfield, Dublin, 4,>
> Country/ADMD                    Ireland

Imaging yourself having to type such an address on the telephone
every time you want a chat with your neighbour or your co-worker.

It takes approximatively 3-5 seconds to type an 822-address. (A bit
more if you have to search for it :-) (Or if the recipient belongs
to certain domains in german ;-)

I'm not rejecting S/A addresses, just saying that I like to do it
fast (sending letters, that is). Besides, I like 822-addresses, I
think they're quite mnemonic and very easy to remember.

Ole Bjorn.
obh@usit.uio.no