Subject: Re:

From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:30:14 +0800

> On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
>   >> Can you type back and forth on e-mail like you can with aol?
>   >
>   >        Email is not interactive.
> 
> Yes it is: Set up a filter that *asks* before it sends any mail with AOL
>  in
> it to /dev/null (or bounces it, attaching nice X-sources...).

        Email is not interactive.  What you've just suggest is not 
interactive.

>   >        According to the news reports these days the only "talking
>  back and
>   >forth" on AOL these days is between customers, customer service, and
>   >lawyers.  :-)
> 
> On second thought, she might mean this:

>         FEATURE: allow-talk

        talk is interactive.  talk is not email.  Try not to stretch 
meanings too much in order to make yourself "correct".

        Regards,

                Ed

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