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From: booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: The "Reality" of Electronic Communication
Message-ID: <1019@lll-crg.ARpA>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 01:56:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 01:56:59 1985
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References: <917@cvl.UUCP> <352@whuts.UUCP> <11@ttidcc.UUCP> <1617@teddy.UUCP> <369@whuts.UUCP> <217@pttesac.UUCP> <28@ttidcc.UUCP>
Reply-To: booter@lll-crg.UUCP (Elaine Richards)
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Keywords: "The Polymath","vanam@pttesac.UUCP" and Andy Cohill wrote:
Summary: The discussion goes on....

>>In article <369@whuts.UUCP> amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) writes:
>>>Email certainly expands the potential for communication, but I will
>>>writing to *my* friends in longhand as long as I am able...
>>
>>Personally I'd rather *my* friends type their letters.  Of course,
>>I still expect a hand written signature on all smail.
>
>Likewise.  I have a friend in England who I corespond with.  Every time one
>of  her  letters  arrives it takes me at least half an hour to decipher her
>hen-tracks.  

All the little arrows confusing you ? Me, too. That's why I left them in :-).
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!

My sister is a military wife. I was broke one Christmas, so I emptied my
goody box of all the souvenirs I had. I sent a fossil, leaves, shells, a
tacky (but fun) medallion from Caesar's Tahoe (no, I didn't lose $ there!)
and a note telling the stories of each goody. Joan's hubby was overseas
and she had a little kid to care for. She spent the whole day going through
the goody box. She enjoyed herself immensely. (She has beautiful penmanship,
by the way. She wrote to thank me.)

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!

E
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Dare I say it ? Keep those cards and letters coming in, folks!