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Message no. 1
From: Iridios <iridios@*********.COM>
Subject: Whats the deal with Email?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 20:41:41 -0400
Wilbur Cornholio wrote:
<from Re: What's the deal with the new Physad? -Reply>

<snip!>

> i tend to see emails as hastily scribbled notes, rather than neat
> precise letters.
> i guess I'm alone in that one huh?

Yep.

While I tend to view normal email as quickly written letters (as
opposed to notes), I tend to view listmail as a conversation carried
over great distances (thus the delay in response times).


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--"Any science, sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from
magic."
--Arthur C. Clarke

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