-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Andrew Berg wrote: >> Robert J. Hansen wrote: >>> In the universe of practicability, what he wants to do is not possible. >> I know that. I just forgot to add that I know it. > > First, please do not quote private emails to public mailing lists > without the original author's consent. I did not realize it was a private message; it was threaded with all the other messages of the same topic. I apologize and I will certainly make sure to read header info to make sure it was from the list next time.
I see that GnuPG-Users was sent a carbon copy, so quoting this to the list should be fine. ;-) > Second, what you really forgot to add was a smiley. Psychologists have > done a ton of studies on how we perceive others via email, and what > they've discovered is that people overwhelmingly are awful judges of the > emotional context of email, and they are also overwhelmingly awful about > recognizing the fact they are awful judges. People read emails and feel > great certainty about what the 'real' emotional context is. I think that stems from the fact that written language can't hold that context very well, so one is forced to interpret it. On a side note, I think written language was really only intended for formal things (widespread literacy is relatively new), and we haven't had time to adapt it enough to make it replace spoken language. >> John Clizbe wrote: >>> Folks won't snicker behind your back that way. >> Why would people snicker behind my back? I wasn't seriously suggesting >> that he try to do it. > In the absence of any contextual clues to make it clear you were joking, > John was reading your message straight-up. When reading your message > straight up, it comes across as being kind of ankle-biting. Had you > added a smiley, or some note at the end to explain it was a joke, you > probably wouldn't have received that reaction. I thought its absurdity was enough of a clue. I guess I was wrong. > All it amounts to is a joke (a) wasn't received by the intended audience > and (b) the intended audience responded as if it was straight. This > sort of thing happens tens of thousands of times a day on the internet. > So let's all go back to our respective corners, and return a few > minutes later with an appreciation for the expressive power of the > simple, underutilized, smiley. :) Agreed. :-) - -- Windows NT 5.1.2600.2180 | Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 | Enigmail 0.95.5 | GPG 1.4.7 Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB - available on major keyservers and upon request Fingerprint: 4A84 CAE2 A0D3 2AEB 71F6 07FD F88E 0340 60A7 8FCB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBR0lz6viOA0Bgp4/LAQNQAQf/c5gmtyU2L8hoPIplKoKRqe5iDZhVruEl sGvIp2REQwU1rwW5motIJcsXfkHDuq3yQjRBDfpFhgh4LFpVvZL8PWE3XljHW6HJ 1TfGXxcBJrm8sCkn5NgXNF3jJSCh5n9NaVV/2PZA6+0hIfjuB5kalkc9SICOAj6H oKiB8HqDM5W8YT+atvjI7x51njXqWHoMZkHJhJ1+owC522XNv/r6r7AXo8CLCp/A 6152BNID2QlWU0fdPUXxT87+8Ns8JqU/POXAoOZrfET+t6ohG27B6qtYe/buCsUu FwcMSg7cfq/1D7JHZ6JEdfKZOe+6PBMD9c9G0VipVisLB69ZAFwH7w== =HHyh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
