Re: undergrads and email

Subject: Re: undergrads and email
From: gaa6926 -at- UCS -dot- USL -dot- EDU
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 10:01:31 -0600

Karen Muldrow writes:
> most email users are not
> anonymous. We typically have gender-specific names. Race and other physical

Well, I am gaa6926 thanks to the powers that be in U.S.L.'s computing center.
I've found that not all of the electronic communications I receive have a real
name in the header. Without a signature, there is at least the possibility of
genderless communications.

What I find most appealing about e-mail, net news, and so forth is that
I can enter intelectual converstations with only my intelect. I can argue
issues and be judged only by what I write. There is no consideration of my
age, the length of my hair, or other irrelevant issues. What I write is
judged as writing and ideas, and nothing else.

BTW, I have an undergraduate degree in applied science (computer science and
math) and I am working on a master's degree in rhetoric. I worked for
three years as a technical writer, doing mostly software documentation.
I've worked as a programmer and my assistantship duties include PC repair
and sundry other electronic chores.


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