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From: amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: The "Reality" of Electronic Communication
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 07:52:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 07:52:23 1985
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> I cannot understand why a touch typist would write a letter in
> longhand.  Surely typed letters are easier to read and quicker
> to write.

> Marnix van Ammers

I write my leters longhand because I find the physical act of
putting words down on paper an excellent filter. I tend not engage
in page after page of meaningless drivel, and concentrate more on
things that are important to me. If no one else wants to take the
time to write longhand, that's fine, too. I would rather receive
email than no mail.

In my experience, the content of email tends to be 
rather trivial, while the hand-written mail that 
I receive from friends tends to be both more
interesting and more robust in terms of content. 

It is possible that email can be that way, but I am still waiting
for someone to demonstrate it to me...

The other problem I have with email is that I find it less reliable.
Time after time I send someone a note, only to have it bounce back
two or three weeks later with a two page header of broken uucp
links. Admittedly, this usually occurs only with netnews replies,
but I can't remember the last time a letter was returned or lost via
US Mail.

Best regards,
Andy Cohill
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