How much time do you spend online?

[numbercruncher]

Its not very enviromentally friendly to write letters on paper (trees) and then post them for transport via air/road (burning of fossil fuel), maybe paper and stamps should have a carbon tax ?

 

[Nyden]

Nyden, you mentioned spelling errors are difficult to correct. That is reason enough for me to go back to practicing the "black" art of hand writing. The quality of my prose has diminished in the last 10 years due to use of spell checks, and sheer laziness of shooting off a quick email without thinking about it too much.

Getting group emais from people who just forward things on without even giving a thought to what they are sending and to whom they are sending it cheapens the communication.

Email has it's place for sure. So does the master craftsman who creates the timber cabinet utilizing their skills with dovetail joints and hand finished polishing to create a piece with feel and meaning..

As for going through more trees writing in a conventional way, that may be the case. The thing is it is often plantation pulp and recycled paper that makes up the majority of paper I use. I suppose all the extra web inrastructure and power usage makes mother nature smile, though. Yes, email is as eco friendly as pulling metals out of the ground can be what with the extra net backbone, infastructure and energy requirements.

Cheers,

Didn't you see that documentary? Paper recycling is just a big scam! Oh wait, that was Penn & Teller

Oh come now, (wired infrastructure will slowly be phased out anyway IMO) - first of all, ADSL at least uses phone lines that would need to be there anyway (OK, cellular is a possibility, for both internet, & phone . The same with cable internet - these lines are needed for pay-tv.

Second of all, PCs these days have excellent power-ratings, heck - my laptop can run off a solar collector / wind.

& If you want to get cheeky about pollution, you think those postie bikes run on solar :

Time to run my spellcheck now, you may mail your reply to me :

Well, to each their own I guess.

 

[Mouse]

So, Mouse, you type the letter on the computer. Then you print it off.
Then you find an envelope. Then you find a stamp. Then you find a letterbox.
Then your correspondent receives the letter in two or more days depending on where they live.

You could have just typed the exact same message on an email form and avoided all the above running round. Just to get a reply in an envelope in your letterbox!

I don't mean to sound at all critical - whatever gives you joy etc.
But I just don't get it at all.

*chuckles* No Julia, I suspect you don't get it at all. We seem to disagree with a lot of things when we both post on the same thread for some reason.

I guess I just don't think of all the "running around" as a hassle when it's for someone I care about.

cheers
Mouse

 

[Julia]

*chuckles* No Julia, I suspect you don't get it at all. We seem to disagree with a lot of things when we both post on the same thread for some reason.

I guess I just don't think of all the "running around" as a hassle when it's for someone I care about.

cheers
Mouse

Hi Mouse,
Not setting out to disagree with you at all. I'm just genuinely puzzled.
So is the bit that's good for you the thought that by putting the letter in an envelope and mailing it, that says to the person to whom you are writing that you really care about them more than if you were to express the same sentiments in an email? Essentially, that the more that person means to you the more trouble you are prepared to go to in order to make them feel good if they find a hand addressed letter in their letterbox?

Does it depend to some extent how often you communicate with that person and what sort of relationship it is perhaps?

The sort of email correspondence I was referring to is that with friends with whom I exchange emails several times a week. That just wouldn't be practical in terms of addressing the "current conversation" if writing posted letters.

How would it be if - instead of having this "conversation"on this thread -
you and I were to write to each other by post? Seems a pretty silly alternative to an online discussion doesn't it!

So maybe we are talking about different situations entirely?

 

[Mouse]

Hi Mouse,
Not setting out to disagree with you at all. I'm just genuinely puzzled.
So is the bit that's good for you the thought that by putting the letter in an envelope and mailing it, that says to the person to whom you are writing that you really care about them more than if you were to express the same sentiments in an email? Essentially, that the more that person means to you the more trouble you are prepared to go to in order to make them feel good if they find a hand addressed letter in their letterbox?

Does it depend to some extent how often you communicate with that person and what sort of relationship it is perhaps?

The sort of email correspondence I was referring to is that with friends with whom I exchange emails several times a week. That just wouldn't be practical in terms of addressing the "current conversation" if writing posted letters.

How would it be if - instead of having this "conversation"on this thread -
you and I were to write to each other by post? Seems a pretty silly alternative to an online discussion doesn't it!

So maybe we are talking about different situations entirely?

Julia,

If you reread my post I did say that emails have their place for quick correspondance. That makes this whole "conversation" ... to quote you ... "pretty silly".

cheers
Mouse

 

[Julia]

Julia,

If you reread my post I did say that emails have their place for quick correspondance. That makes this whole "conversation" ... to quote you ... "pretty silly".

cheers
Mouse

Actually the correspondence I was referring to wasn't quick in content, simply its means of transmission. I was genuinely interested in why you had the preference you did, but my apologies for bothering you with the question.

 

[awg]

I find that unless I spend at least 3 hours per day online,it is difficult to do enough research to feel justified in managing my own financial affairs.

I am a mostly a long term investor, dont have wireless BB, and on my last holiday the market dropped a fair bit. Came back though.