Fun_People Archive
26 May
DAVE BARRY'S EXPERIENCE UPON SIGNING ON TO PRODIGY OR WHATEVER
Date: Thu, 26 May 94 13:06:02 PDT
To: Fun_People
Subject: DAVE BARRY'S EXPERIENCE UPON SIGNING ON TO PRODIGY OR WHATEVER
Forwarded-by: bostic@vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: eppes@bookie.enet.dec.com
Forwarded-by: RANGER::BAZEMORE "Barbara b."
Forwarded-by: HANNAH::LANDAU "Rick, DECprint engineer without portfolio"
Forwarded-by: I18N::GLANTZ
The thing about e-mail is, you THINK you're going to be on the Information
Superhighway and get information [from] all over the world, but what you
actually GET is about 9,000 messages that say: "Are you really (your name)?"
And after a little bit of research, I am able to determine that I AM really
(my name), but deep down inside this is something I was already aware of.
In some ways I think I like the pathetic old U.S. Postal Service Superhighway
better. I rarely get letters asking if I am me.
© 1994 Peter Langston