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Article: I've Got Mail; Linked to Losers
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 27, 1998
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My favorite piece of e-mail begins like this: "You have got to be
one of the most fatuous jerks of all time." It goes on: "You're no
more than a shrieking, shallow, self-absorbed dysfunctional paranoid
twit" -- etc., etc. -- "shrill fishwife" and, well, you get the
picture.
Via computer modem I have been called ugly, insane, a bad writer
and a bad mother, a jerk, a loser, a hoser. I can't spell, I smell
and I have bad hair.
There are a million stories floating around out there about the
glory of e-mail. These have entered the media slipstream to the
extent that I have to assume that I alone have never fallen in love
online and had a cyberbaby or rescued an e-mail correspondent in the
midst ...