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Re: Request for a new word (or maybe a neologism)

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From: Len Olszewski
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:51
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In article <28855@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth) writes:
|> What do YOU call e-mail correspondence ?
|>
|> "Talk" is certainly incorrect.
|> "Writing" doesn't seem to fit.
|> "e-mailing" doesn't have the right ring.
|> "Networking" applies in other areas.
|>
|> "Flaming" describes a certain kind of correspondence, but I'm looking
|> for a word that describes civilized discourse.
|>
|> So _what_, already ?
|>

It's "online". I get in touch with you online, you reply online; one of 
us keeps a summary of our online correspondence, and so forth. Posting 
to a newsgroup qualifies as online communication, as does email.

|> (winners will be notified by e-mail. you need not be present to win)
|>

Good; online notification. Hey, if you disagree, let me know online, 
would you?

|> regards, pete
|> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|> Peter N Roth      roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil
|> Do what you can with what you have where you are. - D L Moody.

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