[extropy-chat] Email is for the old folk now

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:50:39AM -0400, Amara D. Angelica wrote:

> Emlyn, great to find another "real-timer," I like to call us. It's

If you email is not realtime, you're doing it wrong(tm). The
advantage of an email exchange over an reflector vs. IM is that 1)
you don't see the other party type 2) messages arrive <1 s
3) there's spam filtering 4) it's self-archived, in a web/world
visible format 5) I get to used my favourite text editor
6) quite a few other things.

I can type almost as fast as I can talk, and I don't get to
keep searchable transcripts of audio, not quite yet. Emlyns
other points are all very good.

> increasingly difficult for me to relate to the "old-timers" (email users)
> and have to spell out words - have you noticed? Skype me at "amaraangelica"

I'm not buying Sapir-Whorf for a moment, but you're playing with fire there.

> any time.  - AA 

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