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If you use some other mail system, like Elm or Eudora, that's okay too. Primarily I'm looking for Dartmouth usage information. All information will be kept confidential. You do not need to answer all the questions. Approximate answers are fine. This information is being collected for a project for my English 18 (History of the English Language) class. Take a look at the introduction to the project, if you'd like, when you're done the questionnaire.
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What year are you at Dartmouth?

How many messages (approximately):

are in your In Box?
do you send a day?
do you receive a day?

How many times a day do you check your blitzmail?

2 or less
3-5
5-10 or more
Constantly-Always signed on!

Do you save and or archive all your blitzmail?

Yes, every blitz I get I save forever!
Yes, I save some blitzes, like from friends or profs.
Well, I save a few blitzes, but not very many.
No, I trash all my messages as soon as I'm done.

Do you send out announcements or mailings to large lists of friends and people? (i.e. mass-mailings, either as a regular list or just because)

Yes
No

Do you use smileys on a regular basis? :) =) >:( etc

Yes
No

Do you emote with *s? *grin*

Yes
No

Do you consciously have to keep yourself from using *s and smileys when writing snail-mail letters?

Yes
No

Do you really have to check yourself when writing papers? Has your writing style in your first drafts become more chatty, does it have more run-on sentences, do your paragraphs either stop short or go on forever?

Yes
No

Do you send short replies to messages? Less than 100 characters, things like "yep" or "I'll be there" or "see you later" or "gotta go", etc.

Yes
No

How much do you find blitz-speak creeping into how you talk? (Have you ever caught yourself saying the word "grin"?

Yes, I speak fluent blitz-speak!
Yes, a good amount, like "blitz, flame, FYI," etc.
Basically just blitzmail words like "blitz, blitzing, to blitz" etc.
No, I don't even use the word "blitz" except when referring to military events.

Do you use "proper" capitalization (like do you capitalize "I", proper names and the first word in each sentence? in your blitzes to:

Friends Yes No
Professors Yes No
Family Yes No
Lists (Sub-request lists, chat lists, UGA group lists) Yes No
Postings (Newsgroups, listservs, etc) Yes No
Strangers and randomsYes No

Are you more likely to respond to really long blitzes (3000 or more characters) or really short blitzes (500 characters or so) more quickly?

Long
Short

Ever wonder how you did anything without Blitzmail? Make dinner plans, remember your homework assignment, remember to go to Dick's House, find out what's going on this weekend, get in touch with a lot of people at once, survived, etc?

Yes, I am a Blitz-aholic.
No, I could survive if Blitzmail went away tomorrow. (But I don't want it to!)

Any additional comments:

| TOC | Intro | Tone | Dartmouth | Grammar | Emotives | Acronyms | Quotes | Conclusion | Contributors | Bibliography |

Last modified by Carla C. Emmons 10 March 1996.