Date : Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:43:05 +0100
From : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Reply To Address For List
"Colin" <cwhill@...> wrote:
> Of course, all being interested in computers of one sort or another and
> probably well capable of writing programs in BASIC at the very least,
> actually looking at the e-mail we are writing to see who we are actually
> sending it to (it's only a few cms above where we type it) is totally beyond
> us. We just hit "reply" and "send". (I'm as guilty as most of us of doing
> this and nearly did it with this one).
>
> I wonder what that tells us about ourselves?
No, it's more like that as people who regularly use and program
computers we realise that the whole point of computers is that
*they* are there to remember things and do monotonous repetetive
tasks, not *us*.
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