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In article <CyrCAq.FBF@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, 
wthuh@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca says...
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>Hi,
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> I am a student at the University of Waterloo, doing a short study
>on people's involvmement in electronic mail correspondence.  If you
>are willing, please freely express your opinion regarding questions
>listed below.  I would really appreciate your cooperation.
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>Are you/Have you been involved in electronic mail correspondence on
>a regular basis?

Define what you mean by "involved in" and "on a regular basis."  I guess 
so.  

 Have you been corresponding to someone you haven't
>met, or have you been keeping in touch with old friends?

Both, but mostly people I know.  I do conduct the odd correspondence with 
a computer technician or someone else I don't know (i.e. e-mailing a 
software co. with questions re: a programme, etc.)

>How did you get involved in this e-mail correspondence?

I had a question, they had an e-mail address, and they answered me.

>How did you start using e-mail for >personal correspondence?  What made 
you first get involved in e-mail?

I had heard that we (grad students) all had free accounts via the 
university but I didn't know how to connect.  Finally, however, a 
"techno-informed" friend of mine who knew someone even more 
"techno-informed" showed me how to get hooked up such that I could access 
my account at home through my own modem and use that account as a "ramp" 
onto the internet.  And so here I am!!!

>How did you get to know your past/present correspondants?
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Mostly people I work with/friends (same), (i.e. I met them in "real time" 
first and then we began corresponding).

>How did you sustain your involvement in e-mail?  Was there any
>reservations to overcome?  Was there any other factors that promoted
>your prolonged involvement in e-mail?  How did your correspondence
>progress? What do you think about e-mail?

WOW!!!  A lot of questions!!!!  I'll just say that the ease of 
transmission, cost-savings, and "techno-niftyness" of the at-home/via the 
modem/Windows connection make e-mail a very attractive option for me.
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>have your correspondence slipped away?

No.

Have you started writing less
>e-mail than before?

I am and have always been a terrible letter writer.  But I correspond far 
MORE frequently now with electronic mail than ever before!!!  Go figure.

Has your correspondent become less enthusiasitic?

No. Quite the opposite.

>Have you ever stopped reading e-mail all together?

No. Unless I'm away from home.  Even with this, however, I often access 
my account in another city via the various "cyber cafes" where you can 
buy time on an internet connection.

  Were you disenchanted>with your correspandant?

What correspondent???

 Were there technical difficulties in accessing
>an e-mail account?

Yes, definitely.  You need either to be very familiar with the 
technologies involved or have "quality" access to someone who is.

>If you have decided to continue your involvement in e-mail 
correspondence,>why have you done so?

See above.

Have you decided to get reinvolved in the
>correspondence after you have discontinue your involvement?

Well one's correspondence is always sort of of-and-on, right? so this is 
kind of a difficult question to answer.  I mean if someone refuses to 
reply to a message I send them more than once I tend to think they aren't 
interested in responding.  And so I don't write them anymore.  I guess 
what I'm saying is that it's an interactive process.

Have >did your involvement in e-mail correspondence change other personal 
relationships?

Well, people I don't physically "see" very often (i.e. fellow graduate 
students working on dissertations who rarely come into the university or 
who even live in other cities) I can still have a semblance of a 
relationship with (regular correspondence).

>In answering those questions, please express
>your personal experience. Please be truthful in your response.

I don't really have much incentive to lie, do I?
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>Thank you again in ad(v)ance.
>Please e-mail to the address above.
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