hilda@ese.essex.ac.uk (Hilda Breakspear) (05/25/89)
This article is hopelessly plagurised from New Scientist, 20 May 1989. Letter from Susan J Behrens, Cambridge I'd like to mention the vast potential that e-mail holds for two colleagues "getting to know one another". Flirting by e-mail benefits those of us who cannot control our fundamental frequencies when embarrassed, who tend to blush easily, and who may fear that incriminating mail will be carelessly left around the home or office. Of course, it all leaves us little hope for one day seeing our collected letters in print. But come on, you don't really think all those people at terminals are really working do you?
scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) (05/27/89)
In article <1017@servax0.essex.ac.uk> hilda@ese.UUCP (Hilda Breakspear) writes: >This article is hopelessly plagurised from New Scientist, 20 May 1989. >Letter from Susan J Behrens, Cambridge > >I'd like to mention the vast potential that e-mail holds for two colleagues >"getting to know one another". Flirting by e-mail . . . Speaking as postmaster for a site full of bad typists, I find being the receiver of undeliverable mail a fascinating way to study the mating habits of academics. This is requires special delicacy in handling when paragraph one of the letter contains high-priority work-oriented data, but paragraph two is a graphic description of the senders intent for the upcoming weekend. Should I correct and forward? Inform the sender? Decisions, decisions. Steve Simmons Just another midwestern boy scs@vax3.iti.org -- or -- ...!sharkey!itivax!scs "Think of c++ as an object-oriented assembler..."