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James D. Davenport <cineman@net1.net> wrote:
>What has happened to ripe conversation? Like you I am tired of base flip 
>remarks being substitued for intelligent verbage.  If a high school drop 
>out can have a relevant conversation on line, why can't those doctors and 
>such? If the internet is to ever become a global community, we need to 
>learn to really talk again. Enough of the crap, give me real people who 
>want a real world with real feelings.
>P.S. I'm not the High School drop out - it's just that the only real 
>conversation I've had on line was with a H.S. drop out from London. 


James, I agree.  I've sat through thousands of threads over the years where
they have multiple breaks into either a) attacks on the person instead of
what they were saying b) a break into cutesy (or what the poster thinks is
cutesy) quips going back & forth or c) both.   It's really frustrating.
Most time I put the people whose only contribution to dialogs are
cute quips in my KILL file and then quickly page through the other quips.

Another trick is to bring the thread back to the interesting discussion part
by responding to that interesting discussion part -- that is, side track
the quips with real dialog as we do in real life when people meet face-to-face.

  - John

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