[unidentified personal message quoted by Deijmann]
I got a chuckle from reading your message to the ITForum. I enjoy a little feistiness, especially when I am somewhat in agreement with the ideological propensities represented. Like you, I am skeptical of the hype around information technology. However, I think your argument suggests that you should desist in trying to make your point using e-mail. If it is true that the meaning of "VERFLUCHT" cannot be stored on a computer, then surely it cannot be transmitted from one person to another by e-mail because it has to be stored at least momentarily on a computer before it reaches the recipient. Yet that is precisely what you attempted to do--transmit the meaning. By the logic of your argument, you failed. Not only that, you failed to make any intelligible argument, since your whole message had to be stored on a computer for a period of time. So where does that leave us? If meaning cannot be stored in printed form, then the whole of the world's literature is a pile of meaningless ink and paper.
There is plenty wrong with the hype about information technology, but its ability to store meaning is not its most serious one. That's a problem that afflicts all media.