On Fri, 23 Feb 1996, Allen Dick wrote:
 
> This is a new medium, and misunderstandings are common because droll
> or good humoured teasing and jests come across flat and hard, unless
> smilies are attached, and that seems to many to be a little phoney.
 
It does, but they (or <grin>s) are just about all we have to
replace the body language that we use far more than we otherwise
realise. I try always to remember to mark humour and so on
like that.
 
We all get the occasional 'off' day, too.
 
It's also easy for something to be misunderstood when a
conversation is via the written word. I had a classic example
just a couple of days ago -- does "network independent" mean it
works with any network, or does it mean it works independently
of any network?
 
Best regards,
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