From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Mon Dec 15 1997 - 01:18:55 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> > By their definitions I am "semi-connected".
> > At work I have two phone lines, voice mail, a pager, an Internet
> > email address, and two PCs on a network which includes a T1...
>
> Yes, their standards are a bit strange. I, too, am "semi-connected"
> despite getting a MB of email a week (30 lists), having my own
> domain, a 4-machine network at home, and a dedicated connection at
> work (here I work as a Webmaster), because I lack a cell phone and
> pager. Sometimes even the connected want to be unreachable.
>
SOunds like the article was written by someone living the Hollywood idea
of success. I for one consider a cell phone and a pager to be more of an
enslavement than an aid. A person who is truly connected posesses the
ability, willingness, and freedom to tell the rest of the world to
bugger off when the need strikes.
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