Re: e-mail

[Lori Lathrop <76620 -dot- 456 -at- COMPUSERVE -dot- COM>]

In response to Chris Miller (cmmiller -at- brahms -dot- udel -dot- edu) ...

Chris -- Here are my answers to your questions:

(1)     My e-mail correspondence with some clients tends to be rather
        formal and, with other clients and online friends, it tends
        to be informal.  BTW, those little faces are called emoticons
        or smiley faces, and I use them only in informal e-mail notes.

(2)     IMHO, a less formal style is encroaching on the more traditional
        methods of communication.  It seems that spelling and grammar do
        sometimes suffer; perhaps it's because the nature of e-mail
        causes people to be in too much of a hurry when they compose
        their correspondence.  Also, many e-mail programs lack spell-
        checking features.

(3)     Speaking for myself, e-mail has replaced many memos and phone
        calls.  It's the way I communicate with most of my clients.  It
        is less expensive than a phone call and, usually, it is more
        convenient for my clients as well as for me because we can
        exchange e-mail whenever we find the time (often at odd hours).
        For that reason, I generally get the information I need sooner
        than I would if I'd sent "snail mail" or left a phone message.

Good luck with your paper.  Hope this helps.

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