X-Message-Number: 1461
Subject: CRYONICS: Re: How to not self destruct
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 14:04:32 EST
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Perry posted a good list of rules for dealing with email.  They would
have prevented most of the arguments I have heard of happening
electronically.  Recent experience leads me to propose one addition:

7) If you don't have time to carefully write a message, or your
message has been influenced by some other constraint your reader might
not know about (like a broken editor, out-of-control line noise,
non-disclosure agreements, or lukewarm interest), describe the
limiting constraint in your message.  Without the nonverbal cues
coming from a face-to-face conversation, it will be hard for your
reader to distinguish rationality that is bounded by a lack of time
(say) from sarcasm, stupidity, or evilness.

Tim Freeman <>

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