[Air-l] post and e-post

[Barry Wellman]

Naomi Baron has a nice book on paper writing and e-writing. Baron, Naomi.
(2000). Alphabet to Email:  How Written English Evolved and Where it is
Heading. New York: Routledge.

And speaking of Hallmark, they came nosing around MIT a few years ago
looking for a study of paper vs e-cards. That's before some of us realized
that e-cards were great spam trawlers.
 Barry
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 06:25:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Postal mail and e-mail

Dear Michael -

I think someone in this group built up some theory on
what postal mail meant to the Victorians (British).
Uh this is the only ref I can find to Victorians:

Standage, T. (1998). The Victorian Internet : the
remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth
century's on-line pioneers. New York, Walker and Co.

But from the Royal Mail you could pull it up to the
21st C. America. Maybe there's a fun history out there
on Hallmark cards????

Cheers, Denise