>Pony "a messenger for mindful correspondence"
I looked in to it a bit, and while it seems like a good idea, it being an app somewhat distances itself from its own mission statement. Yes, the app itself will only deliver messages once a day, but it requires the device that you (mostly) carry with you constantly. Apparently the creator didn't want to just make it e-mail, but I really don't see why, and the reasons they gave for not don't really make much sense unless the reason is purely that he wanted to make money out of it (which he actually admitted in an interview).
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This is a good point, but I'm talking about more is that it's more an issue of standards, and it could even be argued that there's elements of surrogacy involved, where people are getting the social interaction online that they don't get in the real world. It's true that for the addicted the "slow net" would either be too little of "a hit" or even that they would use the "slow net" in addition to the "fast net," but I'm more coming at it from a different angle, that is the realigning of what we expect and want from the "digital life."
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It's interesting that you mention my idea of consolidating usenet being tried before, but I doubt it was very successful as when I look at some newsgroups high in the hierarchy they don't seem any more lively that those lower down. It's weird that BBSs actually seem more "alive" (by the reduced standards I'm talking about) than usenet despite the difference in infrastructure involved.