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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: The "Reality" of Electronic Communication
Message-ID: <217@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 19:41:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 19:41:54 1985
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In article <369@whuts.UUCP> amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) writes:

 ...
>Lest anyone wonder, I am a touch typist, so it is not that I write
>things out longhand because I can't type.
 ...
>Email certainly expands the potential for communication, but I will
>writing to *my* friends in longhand as long as I am able...
 ...

I cannot understand why a touch typist would write a letter in
longhand.  Surely typed letters are easier to read and quicker
to write.

Personally I'd rather *my* friends type their letters.  Of course,
I still expect a hand written signature on all smail.

Flames welcome.

Marnix van Ammers
Pacific Bell ESAC
Room 427, 215 Fremont St.
San Francisco,
CA 94105
(415) 545-8334