Christian, I wouldn't say we all have the 'have to' impulse, having deleted a number of these recent emails outright rather than wade through them all while hoping for something list-relevant :) I'm not sure I see the connection between that kind of impetus and F2F habits, though - attending to list posts involves actively opening emails using a medium that was designed for asynchronous communication, which I don't see much of a parallel to in face to face spoken discourse (though I could certainly see a parallel between the unopened mail in the inbox to the summons of a telephone ring, where the 'expected' action is to give the message your time). I think defining 'the floor' as being the same in email and F2F is where I'm seeing the disconnect. Joshua Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics Culture, Language & Social Practice University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/ Quoting Christian Nelson <xianknelson@mac.com>: * * On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:33 PM, radhika gajjala wrote: * * > its so sad that people (and I include myself here) have to waste their * > time and energy arguing over all this when there is so much else to be * > done - both onine and offline. * * "Have to"? That's the feeling I'm interested in. Does everyone feel * that? They can't help but read everything posted to the list? Where * does that come from? Is it, as I earlier suggested, due to a holdover * of f2f habits, or something else? * --Christian * * _______________________________________________ * The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list * is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org * Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: * http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org * * Join the Association of Internet Researchers: * http://www.aoir.org/ *