Adresses can not be AUTOMATICALLY retained?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

JR shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers:

Is the the "Be Nice" forum or the "Word" forum ????
John

John,

It's the "Who wants to be added to my *plonk* file today" newsgroup.

PS: I don't "forum", I "newsgroup".
NetNews/UseNet/newsgroup people (the old generation) usually have a
very different attitude compared to web/forum people (the new
generation). When a forum is an interface to a newsgroup, you mix the
two groups together. So what essentially happened here was a generation
conflict.

As always: Your Mileage May Vary(tm).

PPS: When I'm talking about old, new, generations etc you must
interpret them as metaphores. I'm not talking about age, but about
familiarity with technology and its social implications. It's possible
to have a 28 year old person in the old generation (those who live by
RFC1855 et al) and a 50 year old person in the new generation (those
who think RFC means Royal Flying Corps or Rugby Football Club). That's
the fun thing about technology: it redefines social relations as we
know them, making interaction with others more interesting.

Hey, shouldn't some sociology student somewhere out there write his
paper on this subject?

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hey, shouldn't some sociology student somewhere out there write his

paper on this subject?

Don't think it hasn't been done! See, for example:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical Report&id=500

http://research.microsoft.com/~jchayes/Papers/cluster.pdf

Shauna

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

 

[Amedee Van Gasse]

Shauna Kelly shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers:

Don't think it hasn't been done! See, for example:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%2
0Report&id=500

http://research.microsoft.com/~jchayes/Papers/cluster.pdf

Shauna

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

Thank you!
It's good to know others share my opinion that technology strongly
influences behaviour.

 

[Ritter197]

Now, now, THAT is nonsense. Abusive and belligerent?
I posted a surprise and disappointment that there was no easy, intuitive way
to save addresses from e-mails received.

Ritter197

 

[Ritter197]

Thanks Richard. It is a pity that in NG's some people are more interested in
finding something wrong with exact form than help.

 

[Ritter197]

I thanked you for the clear,easy to understand response by you.

I did not see that in Graham's response, but nevertheles apologized.

AND since this is a newsgroup, it is generally dicouraged to post individual
responses.

Now, can you stop. Suzanne and stick with HELPING !

That would be appreciated by many. I am sure.

Ritter197

 

[Amedee Van Gasse]

Shauna Kelly shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers:

Don't think it hasn't been done! See, for example:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%2
0Report&id=500

http://research.microsoft.com/~jchayes/Papers/cluster.pdf

I read some, and my first reaction is:

<keanu>
Whoa!
</keanu>

The weird thing is, I understand most of it... which I don't
understand... *boggle*

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

My impression, though, was that most of the incivility here was coming in by
way of Usenet and almost certainly from the orphaned (and deprecated)
microsoft.public.word.general. By "here" I meant "in this thread," but when
I switched to "Show All Messages," I was surprised to discover that "this
thread" was not the one I thought it was, but the comment still applies:
note that none of the participants are @discussions.com.

 

[mpt]

My pleasure.

Richard

Thanks Richard. It is a pity that in NG's some people are more interested
in finding something wrong with exact form than help.

 

[Amedee Van Gasse]

Suzanne S. Barnhill shared this with us in
microsoft.public.word.newusers:

My impression, though, was that most of the incivility here was
coming in by way of Usenet and almost certainly from the orphaned
(and deprecated) microsoft.public.word.general. By "here" I meant "in
this thread," but when I switched to "Show All Messages," I was
surprised to discover that "this thread" was not the one I thought it
was, but the comment still applies: note that none of the
participants are @discussions.com.

Indeed, you ARE correct!
In this case... for every rule there are exceptions.

My personal observation is that in most other cases the incivility
comes from "relatively new" users (more than 1 year but less than 5
years of internet usage), and there is a higher probability for a "new
user" to be on a forum, not on usenet.