Dear Piya and friends,

you are right. Face-to-face communication is crucial for better
understanding because plain messages may not convey full meaning as
well as face-to-face communication.

I think engineers do agree with you and soon people can start seeing
and talking to each other over webphones!

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Piya Tan wrote:

Meeting people face to face is really vitalizing, especially when we
meet in Dharma. The web can be very impersonal and is a magnet for
letting our latent tendencies run wild through its faceless.

When we do meet people face to face, we have some idea that we are
communicating with living beings, not merely digital opinions and
statements.