In contrast, rhetoricians with a somewhat anthropological bent might see a more explicable set of narratives and rituals governing computer-mediated communication and community behavior. The gift economy of the Internet—which revolves around the paradigm of exchange—seems to present an opportunity for such an analysis, especially since users literally trade digital files, programs, and documents through informal online networks. Ellen Strenski has argued that e-mail functions as a form of communally recognized “epistolary gift exchange” rather than the unstructured, netiquette-less, free-form discussion posited by Spooner and Yancey.4