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In article <Bzo19r.MMH@unx.sas.com>, saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes:
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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 ?
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||> "Talk" is certainly incorrect.
||> "Writing" doesn't seem to fit.
||> "e-mailing" doesn't have the right ring.
||> "Networking" applies in other areas.
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||> "Flaming" describes a certain kind of correspondence, but I'm looking
||> for a word that describes civilized discourse.
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||> So _what_, already ?
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|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.
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||> (winners will be notified by e-mail. you need not be present to win)
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|Good; online notification. Hey, if you disagree, let me know online,
|would you?
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Puts me in mind of an expression I first heard at TypEx in Chicago
(I think it was 1986?).  Some IBM rep was presenting their latest
sales spiel in the guise of an objective comparison of several
formatting products.  Someone stood up and asked "So, have you got
something that actually runs, or is this just more vaporware from
Big Blue?"

The presenter very coolly responded "Let's take that question offline,
shall we?  Are there any other questions?"

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--Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC  |  sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
        Hellenic poet of the same name.  |