Re: Too much e-mail
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Too much e-mail
- From: "* R* <r*@kersur.net>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:11:14 -0400
Duncan,
I love it! We've had Internet access for a year now, but I'm in self taught
computer kindergarten. Until we signed on to pumpkins.com I would
grudgingly turn this space age TV on once a week whether it needed it or
not. But no kidding, now it's the first thing I do every morning after I
brush my teeth. I knew I had a problem this morning when my server was
having a glitch and I couldn't reteive todays E-mail. I nearly had a fit.
Have no fear though all is beter now. I know I need E-mail junkies too.
P.W.
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> From: McAlpine, Duncan G <Duncan.McAlpine@PSS.Boeing.com>
> To: 'pumpkins@mallorn.com'
> Subject: Too much e-mail
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:30 AM
>
>
> > >I know it's time to join E-Mail Junkies Anonymous. I just
> > >realized I was doing all these things!
> > >
> > >1. I wake up at 3 am to go to the bathroom and stop to check
> > >my e-mail on the way back to bed.
> > >
> > >2. I nick-named my grandchildren eudora, aol and dotcom.
> > >
> > >3. I turn off my modem and get this awful empty feeling, as if
> > >I had just pulled the plug on a loved one.
> > >
> > >4. I spend half the plane trip with my laptop on my lap...and
> > >my grandchild in the overhead compartment.
> > >
> > >5. I decided to stay in college for an additional year or two,
> > >just for the free internet access.
> > >
> > >6. I laugh at people with 14.4-baud modems.
> > >
> > >7. I started using smileys in my snail mail.
> > >
> > >8. I find myself typing "com" after every period when using a
> > >word processor.com
> > >
> > >9. I refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
> > >
> > >10. I can't call my mother...she doesn't have a modem.
> > >
> > >11. I check my mail. It says "no new messages." So I check it
> > >again.
> > >
> > >12. I don't know what gender three of my closest friends are,
> > >because they have neutral screennames and I never bothered to
> > >ask.
> > >
> > >13. I move into a new house and decide to netscape before I
> > >landscape.
> > >
> > >14. I tell the cab driver I live at
> > >http://4910/PL/S/E/House/brick.Garden/html
> > >
> > >15. I have started tilting my head sideways to smile.
> > >
> > >It's a scary thing....
> >
> > >16. If I can't get on the internet it wrinkes up my whole day.....
> >
> > >17. I depend on spell check to scan my handwritten letters.
> >
> > >18. If the computer isn't working so I can communicate with someone,
> > I'm
> > like a small boat drifting around without an anchor.....awash....
> >
> > >19. I lose contact with everybody who doesn't have a modem..
> >
> > >20. I come home to 200 e-mail letters and have to spend half a day
> > getting
> > caught up.......unlike letters that you can just stash in a
> > drawer.....
> >
> >
> >
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