Will they be reading the printouts..... Or will they be reading the
screen... Or whatever technology is available to them then?
GT
Graham Kitchen
Corporate Records Manager
Unified Western Grocers
5200 Sheila Street
Commerce, California 90040
Telephone: (323)264-5200 Extension 4560
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> From: Records Management Program
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maarja Krusten
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> Subject: Scent [was Re: [RM] Knowledge management [Was Re:
> [RM] RAINdrip: Wonder if reading through 25 year old e-mails will
>
> I agree with Steve and Russell. Russell is correct; some writers are
> extraordinarily skilled at creating a sense of time and place and
> conveying tactile experiences. But Steve is right, the original
> article mentioned the scent of a perfume associated with the boxed
> letters kept by the woman. Was the scent actually on the letters or
> did the writer just remember it in reading the letters? (I've mostly
> worked with government records, no perfume there, ahem. Does anyone
> know from experience how long scent remains on a perfumed-dabbed
> letter? Or one that has been preserved in a box along with sachets,
> etc? Potpourri and sachets lose their strength over time, of course.)
>
> Somehow, I don't think there are many teenage girls around
> now who, as
> they age, will go back and read printouts of messages received from
> adolescent boys and associate them with that supposed chick-magnet
> scent, Axe, LOL.
>
> Maarja
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Petersen <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:16:32 -0500
> Subject: Re: [RM] Knowledge management [Was Re: [RM] RAINdrip: Wonder
> if reading through 25 year old e-mails will
>
> Russell, I agree when they're trying to get the
> tactile/sensory point
> across,for example in a novel, and are making a conscious
> effort to do
> so.
> Not so with grandma's letters - you truly feel/sense the
> memories from
> the handwriting, sensory environment that the letter was
> written. Just
> went through the same exercise with some old stuff from my
> mother-in-law
> and there was nothing about the conscious writing style that brought
> the
> flood of memories . It was the touch,feel,smell of handling the
> material
> and the personal handwriting.
>
> Steve Petersen CRM
> Records Manager
> Rockwell Collins Inc
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