Re: CHAT: Timezones was The English/French counting system

--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

> If you only use email, then yes.  But if you do
> use the phone, either
> direct or IP-based, or if you use IRC or other
> form of chat, then it definitely does matter.
Quite. It should be obvious which camp I'm in!

> Also if you use email transactionally -- if
> you expect someone to do something for you, it
> pays to know whether
> they are likely to respond today or tomorrow.
And if you care whether they answer today or
tomorrow. I am under no misconception that email
should be anything like a personal face-to-face
or telephonic conversation.

If I make a transaction face-to-face or on the
phone, I expèct it to be accomplished at that
time. If I do something online either by email or
via a website, I don't expect any action within a
halfweek. Lengthen that to a week or fortnight if
by mail.

Lesson learnt: if you need a thing now, get it
personally or order it by phone.

Padraic.


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