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>>Robert;
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>>A study done at Princeton University Psychology department (before the Internet became popular) concluded that only 25% of what is “communicated” between two people is understood. That was when the two people were meeting face to face. The Internet does not provide a good way to express yourself.
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>>It is too easy for anyone for whatever reason to take a word, sentence, paragraph or even a series of posts out of context. An individual will take issue with something that may not have been intended by the sender. People have “buttons” that when pushed activate them into another dimension. That could be an emotional state in which case all reason is lost.
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>I know I have a tendency to type too fast, sometimes faster than I am thinking, and then push the send button without proofing, and spell checking and then, when I see my post the next day and read it.... sometimes it can be read in ways I didn't mean. Writing well is hard.

Hands up all who have wished for a 'recall' button, often within minutes of sending something and realising exactly what you have written: at least the spoken word dies with its echoes: who knows how long something written in a newsgroup might last and in what form it might return to haunt you...

Hmm...(RJL goes off to write Retractor 1.0...)