communication style

[Jared Earle]

On 4/28/06, David Kettlewell <david at new-renaissance.net> wrote:
> Nice that Clytie 'pulled the plug' on the mysterious thread 'Target and
> Omni Group to Merge': but I have to say I'm just as puzzled by her
> message using so many abbreviations which are at least not part of my
> everyday world - SP 7 and UMP, and even OW leaves me having to use my
> brain to work out that you're referring to OmniWeb ... certainly a
> title like 'OW 5.5 SP and UMP' is for me a complete turn-off, normally
> enough to make me trash it without reading it.

This is why we filter messages into folders. If it's in an Omniweb-L
folder, I have a context, and I read subjects depending on their
context. It still doesn't mean I read all the mails, but it means I
know what I'm trashing. :D

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