From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28535 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A New Year's Resolution Date: 03 Jan 2000 10:51:36 -0800 Organization: U.C.Davis, Information Technology - D.C.A.S. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165365 30386 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:56:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B80D051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:53:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB06395; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:53:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:53:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14341 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:53:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from wanderer.dcn.davis.ca.us (wanderer.dcn.davis.ca.us [168.150.190.2]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC555D051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:51:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from hardaker@localhost) by wanderer.dcn.davis.ca.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA07135; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:51:36 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: wanderer.dcn.davis.ca.us: hardaker set sender to Wes Hardaker using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-URL: http://dcas.ucdavis.edu/~hardaker X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "02 Jan 2000 07:11:24 +0100" Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.08 (Gnus v5.8.0) XEmacs/21.2 (Shinjuku) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28535 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28535 >>>>> On 02 Jan 2000 07:11:24 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen said: Lars> (200 messages from mail.misc responded to; 450 to go. I wonder Lars> whether I'm going to accidentally lean on the `d' key now. Is there Lars> any point in responding to mail that more than 4 months old? I suck.) On another point, I decided about a month ago that email is going to be the downfall of modern society. Basically, we now have the ability to communicate so easily now that we respond, they ask something else, we respond (meanwhile writing a 3rd party with a question), they ask something else, the 3rd party responds, you respond to both of them involving a 4th and 5th subject in the discussions, and it snowballs from there. Back in the good old days, when letters had to be carried by ship in order to reach you this wasn't a problem and you got to spend all of your time solving your own problems and producing things rather than communicating with the people you're now reliant on and those that rely on you. However, when voice communications over the internet become better I suspect things will improve, for as I see it half of the problem is the lack of interactivity where someone can interrupt you as they could in a normal conversation to make sure you are talking about what they truly want to know. Warning: if you respond to this note, expect a corresponding loss of true productivity in your day. -- "Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."