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.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> *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.
>>
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>> *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.
>> >
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