[pct-l] salutations

[Patrick Beggan]

I'm sure anachronisms everywhere feel the same way.

And who said forums need be fragments? E-mail is only less organized  
than forums. Everything else is the deal of writers of the English  
language.

On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:06, Gary Wright <at2002 at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 7, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Patrick Beggan wrote:
>> And don't feel bad that you don't know what it is -- mailing lists  
>> are
>> by and large dead, replaced years ago by forums or chat rooms.
>
> That is sort of like saying that radio is dead having been
> replaced by moving pictures and television.
>
> In any case, I almost always prefer interacting via my own mailbox,
> which tracks threads quite nicely, rather than clicking
> through endless page reloads on forums, or hoping to time
> things just right to find an interesting conversation on a
> chat room.
>
> It is very strange to to think that I'm considered a
> technological relic by rejecting the text/twitter/chat
> modes of communication in favor of full sentences and
> paragraphs via email.
>
> Radar