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James G. Smith writes:

> There is a fundamental difference between email and voicemail.  Email is 
> composed whereas voicemail is spontaneous.  Thus, email has the potential
> to contain information which is better organized and certainly requires 
> less disk space to store.

Agreed. On e-mail I can easily turn out a well-organized, lucid
message like this, whereas on voicemail, it's more like: "Hi, um.....
I guess you're not in.... um.... this is ... um .... Mitch... I just
called about.... um, the... um... THING, you know, the THING, the
project we're doing next week, you know, the thing.... oh, never mind,
give me a call, we'll talk." <HANG UP> <REMEMBER> <CALL AGAIN> "Um,
yeah, me again, my phone number is 555-1212."

Most of us are used to organizing thoughts of any complexity on paper
or TTY. Indeed, TV and radio announcers and politicians and lawyers spend 
years honing the skill of speaking off-the-cuff in an organized manner
on highly complex issues. And some of them never get it right.

Mitch Wagner