T9 all over again On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 10:25 AM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've often thought of that as a million-dollar-app idea. Wouldn't even > have to pull the phone out of your pocket to get new messages, just feel > the vibration. To send a message just reach in and push the side button. > Just think of the potential for cheating in school... > > On 7/1/2019 7:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > If there was a morse code app that allowed you to send texts with a morse > bug I would use that. > > *From:* Chuck Macenski > *Sent:* Monday, July 1, 2019 6:13 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette > > I end up using voice recognition to keep up with my kids when texting. > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:45 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > >> One of my nieces texts so fast, they are incoming in a chain almost >> faster than I can read. I think she texts faster than she talks. Naw. She >> talks fast too... >> >> >> >> bp >> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >> >> >> On 7/1/2019 4:24 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >> >> I’m amazed when I send someone a text message and receive a response >> within 5 seconds. In that time they realized they had a message, read it, >> decided on a reply, typed it probably with 2 thumbs, and sent it, plus >> propagation time through the phone network twice. And this is probably >> while they were at work, or driving. Now, that’s real time. Probably too >> real time. Back in the written communication era, you would put the letter >> in the desk drawer overnight before sending it. Email has a Drafts folder, >> so you can think about it and maybe do some editing or not send it at all. >> But texts don’t have a Drafts folder, just a Send button. No Oops button >> either. >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* AF mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]> *On >> Behalf Of *[email protected] >> *Sent:* Monday, July 1, 2019 5:56 PM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:[email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette >> >> >> >> Text? What is this text you speak of... >> >> >> >> I tell my kids I love email because of its real time nature... >> >> >> >> *From:* Matt Corcoran >> >> *Sent:* Monday, July 1, 2019 3:36 PM >> >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette >> >> >> >> You think writing Etiquette is bad. How about reading Etiquette. I >> find when you send a clean point by point list via email. Half the time >> people only respond to the first point and dump the rest. >> >> >> >> Some people think email is just another way to text. >> >> >> >> >> >> *From: *AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Lewis Bergman < >> [email protected]> >> *Reply-To: *AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >> *Date: *Monday, July 1, 2019 at 10:45 AM >> *To: *AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette >> >> >> >> It's funny. Many people are hyper sensative about privacy, but when their >> internet breaks, they believe you should be able to read their minds, know >> everything about their issue, and be able to devine anything else that >> might have happened in or around their property that might have caused the >> issue. >> >> >> >> I also find the older people get, the less they seem to remember that >> whoever they are communicting with, no matter the method, may not have any >> context for the conversation. Many times, the conversation they were having >> was in their own head. >> >> >> >> Before my father died I remember an email he sent to a model airplane >> supplier he purchased a lot of product from. It basically went something >> like this: >> >> "I got this order in late and some stuff was missing and another thing >> was broken. Can you make this right? Thanks". He probably ordered 5 times a >> month from this company. There is no way they could have been anything but >> confused. >> >> >> >> My dad was well spoken and intelligent and wrote email like he was a >> drunken toddler. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 8:50 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think there are a couple of issues. First, people who attempt to use >> email on their phone with some crappy email interface can barely >> actually send the email, let alone leave any identifiable information. >> >> Second is people who are not even slightly technical who just don't know >> how to use email. E.g.: We have a neighbor with whom we share a private >> road. He will dig up an email string from 3 years ago and "reply all", >> even though the subject line is 3 years old and has nothing to do with >> what he's talking about today. >> >> IOW, I don't think it's so much etiquette as it is ignorance. >> >> >> bp >> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >> >> On 7/1/2019 4:08 AM, Nate Burke wrote: >> > So I've noticed a slide recently of what I would consider 'Email >> > Etiquette' Customers send an email with no subject line. Or reply to >> > an old email, with a new topic. EG: our billing system sends out >> > automated invoices. A customer will just reply to one of those >> > emails, weeks later, with a service issue. Doesn't bother to change >> > the subject line or anything. Another common email is just an email >> > with the text "my internet is down" No name/address/phone, anything >> > else identifiable. sometimes the email they use is in our system and >> > we can find it that way, other times not. >> > >> > At some point I must have learned how to use email, I'm guessing >> > people no longer learn that. >> > >> > And don't get me started on the people that text the main office >> > number. I mean, we do get the SMS messages, but again, usually it's >> > just a text like 'Internet is not working' With nothing else to know >> > who it is. >> > >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Lewis Bergman >> >> 325-439-0533 Cell >> ------------------------------ >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Lewis Bergman 325-439-0533 Cell
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