On 09 Oct 2004, at 10:00, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Henri Yandell wrote:I'm really not very impressed with the article.case in point?
What I mean by that is, look at us, read our style in replying. We like to be slick and sharp, and sometimes email is a form of word-based chess playing made with quotes and (smart) elisions.
Definitely.
Look at the "outside world".
Both my wife and I are, for diverse reasons, constantly in touch with other people - for our job and other purposes. Most of the time however, I'll do that from behind my laptop. She ends up being on the phone - a lot - primarily for professional conversations. She doesn't like email for anything but short, functional notes - and I doubt she would ever enjoy extracting or putting information into mailing list threads.
Also, when I use the phone for anything but functional purposes ("I'm late" or "I'm lost"), that's mostly when I'm doing something else, like driving the car, cooking, having a cigaret break. When she rings someone up, the telephone conversation will get her full attention.
I think that the few women in CS and OSS somehow gave up and adjusted to our way of communication - which is a pity. OTOH, it's fairly heard to scale IRL or phone-based communication the way email can scale.
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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