Skip, please reconsider and stay!
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Pendley" <jpendley@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Goodbye
| Skip, noooo! You are right about the medium of email. But it's also true
| that it's really hard to communicate when all you have is the written
word.
| It's so easily misunderstood. All the communication devices we use in
oral
| communication--body language, vocal inflection, etc.--are not available to
| the writer. I thought I'd learned that as a an English teacher. Then,
| four years after I retired, I nearly lost any relationship with my niece
| because of an email. She read something into it that I had never
intended.
| I must have been unconscious when the posts you're referring to showed up,
| but it sounds like some readers simply misread you. That's not your fault
| or theirs; it just happens. Please reconsider.
| John Pendley
|
| > I'm sorry, but I have been very taken aback by the recent rants about my
| > posting, however innocent and tongue-in-cheek it was. IMO, people are
way
| > too sensitive here.
| >
| > You have to remember that email is a VERY impersonal medium. It is way
| too
| > easy to mis-interpret the posting of someone as an attack, rather than a
| > provocative conversation topic.
| >
| > I'm off the list for the forseeable future. I may be back. I don't
know.
| >
| > Skip
|
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