Comments on: an aversion to mail http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/03/27/an_aversion_to_mail.html making connections where none previously existed Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mopsos http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/03/27/an_aversion_to_mail.html/comment-page-1#comment-4913 Mopsos Sat, 15 May 2004 09:32:52 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/03/27/an_aversion_to_mail.html#comment-4913 <strong>Mediation and spamming</strong> From apophenia: an aversion to mailAs i get older, i learn to despise all forms of mediated communication. The problem is that context is lost. When i look focused, my roommates know not to interrupt. With mediation, i can usually... Mediation and spamming

From apophenia: an aversion to mailAs i get older, i learn to despise all forms of mediated communication. The problem is that context is lost. When i look focused, my roommates know not to interrupt. With mediation, i can usually…

]]> By: David Fono http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/03/27/an_aversion_to_mail.html/comment-page-1#comment-4912 David Fono Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:30:32 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/03/27/an_aversion_to_mail.html#comment-4912 I don't think you can blame this one on spam. Telemarketers are annoying, but relatively infrequent. Junk mail is usually demarcated clearly. Then again, maybe I've just been overly successful at flying under the radar. I'm also curious as to the extent that spam exists in unmediated communication. Don't you expose yourself to this garbage everytime you go outside? The difference is that we've been traversing crowded marketplaces for so long as a society, noise pollution is taken for granted. Of course, unlike spam, that kind of stuff isn't maliciously targetted. But it's still annoying garbage, especially when you can't hear the person you're talking to. I don’t think you can blame this one on spam. Telemarketers are annoying, but relatively infrequent. Junk mail is usually demarcated clearly. Then again, maybe I’ve just been overly successful at flying under the radar.

I’m also curious as to the extent that spam exists in unmediated communication. Don’t you expose yourself to this garbage everytime you go outside? The difference is that we’ve been traversing crowded marketplaces for so long as a society, noise pollution is taken for granted. Of course, unlike spam, that kind of stuff isn’t maliciously targetted. But it’s still annoying garbage, especially when you can’t hear the person you’re talking to.

]]> By: Kate Silvertooth http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/03/27/an_aversion_to_mail.html/comment-page-1#comment-4911 Kate Silvertooth Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:13:48 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2004/03/27/an_aversion_to_mail.html#comment-4911 It's enough to make a person long for plain old-fashioned, face-to-face, eye-to-eye communication... that space that is expanive enough for breath and tangled legs and fingertips, and needs no words at all. big love, kate It’s enough to make a person long for plain old-fashioned, face-to-face, eye-to-eye communication… that space that is expanive enough for breath and tangled legs and fingertips, and needs no words at all.

big love,
kate

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