[Histonet] Please help! In dire need of user manuals

[Merced Leiker]

I always find it interesting to discover the vast sea of temperaments out 
there that is elucidated so clearly in the light of email responses. The 
same email can provoke anger, inflict hurt, or elicit laughter from 
different people. :-)

With that in mind studies have shown (so I'm told by a friend who works in 
IT here at UB - I don't have the source) that 90% of communication is lost 
in email. When you don't see facial expression, gesturing, and, most 
importantly, tone of voice, you may never appreciate the sender's true 
intent. Especially if the person is someone you've never met, and, most 
importantly for this listserv, may be coming from another culture or even 
subculture. I have been caught up in several arguments over personal email 
(not on this listserv) with people I KNEW that were never meant to escalate 
as they did, simply because of miscommunication on one or both ends. :-)

I am not saying that Mr. Royer was not in an argumentative (or satirical, 
or sarcastic) state, as key words and phrases from his email that others 
pointed out indicate he may not have been in the best of moods at that 
time. And there are people who, if in an especially sensitive mood and are 
in "dire need of help", can certainly take very personally what has been 
said by someone they've never met before (both my hands are raised). And 
there are people who become highly offended for the sake of the offended 
person. And there are those who see it all quite comically (as I actually 
did at first until I started re-reading the emails from different 
perspectives). :-)

Just my thoughts!

Merced


--On Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:16 AM -0700 Mark Tarango 
<marktarango <@t> gmail.com> wrote:

> It was pretty funny alright.  One for the Histonet Posts of Shame.  There
> are a few of us that could be runners-up with Ford.  haha
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Emily Sours <talulahgosh <@t> gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I thought the rant was pretty funny.
>>
>> Just repeat to yourself "it's an email list, I should really just relax."
>>
>>
>> Emily
>> --
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>> been a book.
>> -mark danielewski, house of leaves
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Merced M Leiker
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