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- From: phydeaux@guru.med.cornell.edu (Dave Weingart)
- Subject: Re: Articles About Internet in Mass Media (Was Internet (Globe article))
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- In article <1992Dec31.190901.25444@osf.org>, dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
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- |> Of course not. But I'm sure they will write more often than they do now.
- |> Currently people either use the phone or ignore their elders, resulting in
- |> a society much worse documented than, say, the Victorians, who often wrote
- |> to each other twice a day. At least we now have the chance of archiving
- |> family correspondence.
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- If in fact people archive anything. I am a great fan of letter-writing, and when
- I get them, I usually toss them after I've read them. Saving letters is a more
- a "cultural" thing (per person) and I suspect that most people won't.
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- How many of you save your email?
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