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From: ambar@mit-eddie.UUCP (AMBAR)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: The "Reality"/typing vs handwriting
Message-ID: <602@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 19:13:48 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.602
Posted: Sun Dec  1 19:13:48 1985
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Keywords: typing, illegible handwriting

In article <217@pttesac.UUCP> vanam@pttesac.UUCP (-Root Admin-) writes:
>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.
> ...
>
>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

I find handwritten letters much more personal and evocative than
typewritten ones.
That is why this touch typist still handwrites her letters,
despite her almost illegible handwriting.  Email is just one of those
things I have to put up with (smiley faces just don't have enough
variety), although the speed of email as opposed to snailmail
makes up for it.
                  AMBAR
"Patience comes to those who wait for it."