On 17 May 2002 20:03:50 -0400 John R Levine <John> wrote: > It's a cultural thing. In the U.S. some people get very prickly about > free speech and hate the thought of losing any mail they want. Other > places they're willing to put up with quite a lot of collateral damage > to keep the spam away, particularly if they haven't been online long > enough to feel that email is as essential to their work as many of us > do.
I find it correlates well with age (in 'net terms). People who got on the 'net since September tend as a class to not consider email either vital or an intrinsic part of their life. Those from before September, as a class, tend to consider email more functionally and even as a reliable transport that has real meaning in their lives. This is not to say that exceptions don't exist on both sides, for instance in the post-September OSS community which tends (quite deliberately) to ape the earlier forms. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
