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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:22:45 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: Electronic Literacy
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- > From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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- > BS. Nothing in what Peter was talking about is related to the Prep-H
- > project -- except perhaps that lists like WORDS-L provide interesting data.
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- For the historically disadvantaged, what is the Prep H. project?
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- > I'm also interested in those questions, Peter. I think it's a bit extreme
- > to predict the demise of formal documents, though. Lawyers, e.g., will no
- > doubt remain formal. And even some e-mailers are now and will probably
- > continue to be careful and formal. The careful and formal e-mailers don't
- > last long on WORDS-L, of course, since by the time they finish cogitating
- > and carefully composing, the thread of discussion is long gone.
- >
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- Words-L has certainly the Village gossip dimensions that inspired
- McLuhan's global village analogy. I suspect formality in a list
- doesn't work, because electronic interchange is more verbal than
- written.
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- Pm
-