>> >I believe that many people on working committees simply do not find e-mail
>> >adequate to the task.
>>
>> If it wasn't adequate, the Internet would not exist; it's how we
>> got this far.
>
>The Net is in awfully early days of its use outside of academic and largely
>US/English language settings. You seem to be saying that what was good enough
>for the Wright Brothers is good enough for today's air traveller. I don't buy
>it, and I find e-mail far less efficient a means of communication than
>face-to-face meetings.
No. You only get participation from people at the F2F meeting - this is
terribly constrained; money and time limits peoples participation.
Email dialogue isn't perfect, but it's better than anything else.
(No, I'm not going to come to Boston to discuss this with you :-)
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