Re: List changes (actually saving email)

[Harmon Seaver <hseaver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sydne Carlson wrote:
>
>   Harmon:
>   Your use(coining) of the word "automagically" was wonderful! It expresses

    Not mine, actually -- it's in fairly common usage now. 8-)

>   that people who are devoted to paper and the printed word (as I would
>   imagine many subscribers to this list surely must be) might put more
>   trust in or just feel more comfortable with a printed email message than

    I know -- especially on a list like this. OTOH, I've seen students
in the computer lab printing *every* single email message they receive.
A practice which will stop here soon since we will be implementing a
10-15 cents a page printing fee.
   Paper's great, I love it, and don't think for one minute that it will
ever be replaced by digital books, etc. And Peter's right, in that the
list archives are readily available. I keep my own stash so I can look
at it when I'm off line. OTOH, there are some lists that I used to get
that I only look at the archives now, because there are just far to many
messages a day, and too much idle chatter.


Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxxx hseaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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