Michael Maskalans wrote:
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> On Jan 2, 2005, at 19:23, Barry Oliver wrote:
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>> The advantage to Email is it is much more "personal" in that I have
>> made much closer friendships via email than I could ever make over a
>> forum. The best comparison I can come up with is it's like the
>> difference between a Restaraunt an a Mall. In a restaraunt, we are
>> all togeather, even if we are at different tables, if something
>> happens we are all "in on it". A forum, like a mall, is much more
>> segmented, and it is entirely possible to have something major happen
>> and the bulk of the members not know about it because it was in the
>> next store/thread, and they just didn't go there.
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> good analogy - not one I've thought of or come across, but it gets the
> point across well. I think I'm going to have to hold on to this =)
> --
> Mike Maskalans <http://mike.tepidcola.com/dodge/>
Thank you. The irony is that is a History major is going to "hold on
to" what a Communication major said...
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