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From: pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh)
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Subject: Re: The "Reality" of Electronic Communication
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 16:03:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 16:03:11 1985
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Keywords: "The Polymath","vanam@pttesac.UUCP" and Andy Cohill wrote:
Summary: hear, hear!  :-)

In article <1019@lll-crg.ARpA>, booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards) writes:
> Actually, you don't need to write anything by snail mail. I send souvenirs.
> SF bus transfers, business cards from local restaurants, newpaper clippings
> with the words "HA HA" liberally scribbled in appropriate places, and books.
> I send Callenbach's Ecotopia a lot (Oh go ahead and flame, see if I care!)
> I also went to art school. I have a habit of doodling incessantly. Stuff the
> doodles in the envelope!
> 
> Communications are more than words. They are smells, textures, sounds
> (my dad taped a Columbia U football game and the subway after), etc.
> I find electronic mail loads of fun and typing easier than scrawling,
> but ain't nothing like a photo of my little nephews or playbills from
> NYC!

When I was studying in Germany, my friends back home had a birthday
party for me a month in advance:  they baked a cake, made banners,
took pictures, and recorded the whole thing on cassette.  The package
arrived on my birthday, and I got to listen to 90 minutes of them
getting drunk, tearing up the furniture, frosting the cake (that
was kinda hard to hear clearly :-), and reading labels on the
mustard.

Another friend still sends me articles clipped from the Daily
Texan, in large packages that come postage due with imaginative
addresses.  It's rather hard to have to go to the post office and
show identification so that you can pick up something addressed
to "Siren of the Wabash". . .

Pooh           topaz!unipress!pooh
               topaz!unirot!pooh

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 See?  Another thing in common! . . ."