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Re: [SANS] Jokes on the email list

At 10:17 PM 9/1/98 -0400, Diana Pederson wrote:
>Have you noticed how hard it is to make jokes via email?  Seems
>like people are always misunderstanding and then getting upset.
>
>Maybe we should identify statements as [joke] to avoid this
>problem?  I've seen flame wars start on many email lists over
>some joking statement.

This never happened to me prior EMAIL. i never used an emoticon, and have
written thousands of pounds of letters and spent YEARS on the phone when
you add up the time. i think shrinkers of the future will be writing tomes
on how email impacted our use of language.

The flamewars on the Opera list, rage on over the use of an adjective  to
describe a vocal quality. you would not BELIVE.

When is the last time you got a flame over the phone? or wrote a poison pen
letter? i thought that putting us in a corny old western and drawlin' was
clearly a joke. I think pretty much everything is a joke.
 By the way, although I despise emoticons, i am very fond of making up
large pictures in colour with huge letters, but everyone else must have
Eudora as a mailer or else they just gt html code and this upsets them
terribly. well, it IS upsetting.

hermine
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