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Re: The Trouble with Email...

To: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>, autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: The Trouble with Email...
From: Judy Becker <judyb@cts.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 11:55:29 -0800
Hi there Kelly
I totally agree with your priorities.

Cars, things, etc. can be replaced.  

But people......


Judy in San Diego   {:>}

At 11:01 AM 11/5/99 -0800, Kelly, Katie wrote:
>The trouble with email is that you're sitting in your office or cube totally
>isolated from the rest of the world. We say things in email that we'd NEVER
>say to someone's face. 
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>Just think of it as a conversation that would happen in the grid of an
>autocross. If you don't like it, instead of walking away, press DELETE. I
>do. Works like a charm.
>
>The other thing I'd like to say is that while the death of Greg Moore and
>the Egyptair flight are all terrible, terrible tragedies, there are people
>you KNOW going through their own life's struggles.  These email arguments to
>me only prove how separated we are from the people who surround us. Look at
>us trying to make peace on team.net a priority. It's just not natural, I
>tell you! You shouldn't read some electronic messages, and then be cranky
>the whole rest of the afternoon. The people immediately around you are MUCH
>MORE IMPORTANT!
>
>Katie 
>
>Katie Kelly
>Technical Publications
>SPSS Bay Area
>(510)412-2812
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