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From: mmc@well.UUCP (Matthew McClure)
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Subject: Re: Email mediums
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Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 17:32:27 EST
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David L. Smith comments:

> I prefer the written medium.... Also I can absorb a lot more information 
> reading than I can listening.  I can print it out for further reference, 
> skim through it, or skip to a particular section.

This was brought home to me fairly forcefully when I was talking with our 
moderator at a party.  We were in a conversation about general software 
development strategy, and he started what was obviously a choice remark 
about "Your options are either to ...  or to ...," but it was a long 
remark, and in the middle of the first half, someone came up and grabbed 
my elbow.  *Blank* went my mind.  I returned to the real world just in time 
to hear him say, "Do you know what I mean?"  "I'm not sure," I replied, and I
doubt if he could have repeated it.  Much as I like conversation, I wish 
that one had been conducted electronically.

    Matthew McClure	International Technology Development Corporation