[meteorite-list] Email conventions was What?! & now FACEBOOK

[MEM]

Well said Mark

Soapbox mode: on.  Using all CAPS in a "specific" word vs TYPING EVERYTHING IN 
CAPS.  I use them to focus attention to subtle points and do not think anyone 
should or would regard this as SHOUTING in an aggressive overtone.  With all the 
nuisances of email's differences in communicating over other media, including 
its casual and often colloquial means of communicating where "spelln and 
gramitical errans are oftern-wise" overlooked for that very matter--it is just a 
part of the climate. We are obliged to invent conventions to clarify meaning and 
facilitate reading.  With the insufferable casual use of endless quotes within 
quotes and never changing SUBJECT lines, I feel the personal choices one uses in 
email are just that personal choices and should not be critiqued by questionable 
conventions established by no specific authority over how one chooses to 
communicate.  There is still the delete button convention-- which will be used 
on this very message.  Soapbox mode: off

 
Thanks given for all the friends and colleagues around the world for their 
safety and somber mental reflection for those who were not so fortunate.

Elton



----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Bowling <minador at yahoo.com>
> To: Meteorite Central <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 10:09:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What?! & now FACEBOOK
> 
> I think part of it too is that what we are thinking and communicating can be 
> interpreted differently.  Most of us probably use words to mean one thing,  
>while 
>
> the dictionary meaning is quite different.  Then there are punctuation  errors 

> that change meaning & context, etc.  In on-line communities all  caps is meant 
>to 
>
> indicate yelling, but some use it to show emphasis, etc.  etc.  A lot of folks 
>on 
>
> this list are pretty savvy in this respect, but I  know I fall into the above 
> description.  More and more folks are getting  on-line and it only adds to the 

> confusion.
> 
> Anymore I (try to) assume  the best, but may ask for clarification if it's 
> something important -  otherwise I just move on and try to get along.  There 
>are 
>
> bigger problems in  the world and I can use my energy for better things.
> 
> Clear skies all!   And welcome back to the States Robert & Mike!
> 
> 
> ----- Original  Message ----
> From: Dave Gheesling <dave at fallingrocks.com>
> To: Walter  Branch <waltbranch at bellsouth.net>;  Meteorite Central 
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent:  Thu, March 10, 2011 9:01:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What?! &  now FACEBOOK
> 
> Great points Walter, and there's a large group of us who  have been guilty of
> same over the years.  It's been interesting of late to  watch the groundswell
> of meteorite community activity on FACEBOOK -- and how  that "more personal"
> environment evidently mitigates, substantially,  foot-in-mouth syndrome.  The
> list will always be the list, and a wonderful  thing it is.  Yet it's amazing
> what having one's face next to every post  seems to do to the general dynamic
> there.  Anyone else noticed  that...?
> All best,
> Dave
> www.fallingrocks.com 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com]  On Behalf Of Walter
> Branch
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:41 PM
> To:  Meteorite Central
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What?!!!
> 
> Hello Michael  and List,
> 
> Your apology was forthright and sincere.  Kudos to  you.
> 
> I have also put my foot in my mouth many times over the years on  this list
> and I should know better.  From recent memory, I owe apologies to  Bill
> Mason, Sonny Clary Geoff Notkin, and the entire Jet propulsion  laboratory.
> 
> I am sure there are others.
> 
> Depersonalization is what  is it called and what we have to guard against. 
> It is so easy to type on a  keyboard then hit "send."  Too easy.  Easier than
> regular mail.  We write  things we would never say in public, not realizing
> that we literally are  writing to a world-wide public audience.
> 
> To no one in particular and at  the risk of sounding paternalisitc (not
> meanding to) I often tell my  patients, "just because you CAN do something
> doesn't mean you SHOULD.  With  the privilge comes responsilbity. Don't
> exercise responsibility and you lose  the privlige.
> 
> Anyway, off soapbox now.  Kudos again to you.  Hope to read  more of your
> posts soon.
> 
> -Walter  Branch
> 
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