Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot From: chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Do the Great Moronic Masses Need Electronic Hand Jive? Message-ID: <862@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 10:46:40 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.862 Posted: Mon Mar 4 10:46:40 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 03:48:25 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 55 Ken Arndt == >>> >>> That is, some persons reading my postings on the net can't tell when I am >>> being serious or if I mean what I say because I don't make use of the 'smiley >>> face' symbol to let everyone in on the tone of my voice. It was told to me >>> that it was in the net 'rules' that use of the ( :- ) was incumbent upon me. >>> >>> Well, I have thought about that and I have decided that it's a bunch of bosh! >>> I mean, I see no real substantive difference between what you are reading on >>> this screen and what you would read in any type of hard copy. L S Chabot == >> >> Big difference: what I normally choose to read in hard copy is written by >> *professional writers*. Gordon A. Moffett == > > Oh my God! I'm no longer qualified to use my native language! Lest others accuse me of such idiocy, I will explain again the difference between the two issues which here are demonstrated as lsc's choice and gam's fear. First of all, there is the matter of "hard copy". I don't know about the rest of you, but I would feel awful committing in ink onto the corpses of trees just about anything we put in net.flame. I may choose to read net.flame, but not on paper. Second, there is the matter of choice. Gordon, and Ken, well, you can post all you like, but you can't make me want to read it. I don't care what language you use, or what deities you invoke. I'll make my own choice. Now, I realize, this is pretty awful, to admit I just might not read, or even print out and keep forever, someone's pearls they've carefully misspelled and posted in all their favorite newsgroups. If this is more than some can take, suggest you end it all now by wrapping your keyboard cable around your neck; after all, life is a downer, somebody might not like you, and a phone bill may arrive in the mail tomorrow and the neighbor's dog will eat it. But wait! Tomorrow is another day! We can continue: posting, and not reading each other's postings (or at least, ignoring the content). :-) Which reminds me: our smiley need to get more technical, we need to convey more information in them. People with glasses of course have more than two eyes, and should own up to it with a ::-) (those with monocles can try :.-) ). Crooked smiles, wry smiles, braces "}{", double noses "=", winks ";", crossed eyes "%", large curly noses "@", television antennae "X", curly hair "*", tongue to the right "\" and tongue to the left "/", c-programmers, christians "+", yuppies "$", rodents "#", blindfolds "|", single, married "&", intelligence "0", ... :-) L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752 shadow: [ISSN 0018-9162 v17 #10 p7, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]