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Matt Whiting wrote:
I've been using usenet for 10+ years and have found that people tend to come across as more hostile in writing than they really are in person. This happens in email as well.Â*Â*YouÂ*don'tÂ*haveÂ*theÂ*inflectionÂ*andÂ*o ther nonverbal cues that you get in mano-y-mano conversation and it is easy for things to escalate well beyond what anyone intended. I've been USENETing since at least 84 (according to DejaGoogle), and I agree. For a while, I resisted using those "emotocon" glyphs reasoning that words should be sufficient in a written medium. Eventually, I gave that up. Too many read perhaps every other, or every third, word. Any possible subtlety is lost when reading is so sparse. Spoonfeeding is required. - Andrew |
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