At 07:17 2000/08/22 -0400, Barbara Knight <[log in to unmask]> wrote to me
privately:
>At 20:51 2000/08/21 -0600, ae wrote:
> >I am a lurker who appreciates very much what you do Janet.
>
>thank you for those kind words, sir!>
>
>janet, it's not that we don't appreciate some of the things you do. but
>obviously you can't be aware how some of your actions adversely affect the
>list. You plunge from paranoid delusions of someone not being who they are
>--to the heights -today flooding the list with posts. and we who sit here
>amazed at your actions, wonder how you can ride this roller coaster of
>emotions. from the 'cave' to the 'skies.' you will remark here, i guess,
>what are your medical qualifications to diagnose me. i have none. i just
>know it is not normal to have such drastic 'ups and downs' that you have.
>that is why i request you get some professional help. and this is a
>legitimate, sincere request - i do care about you. and again i do
>appreciate you. if i didn't, i wouldn't be sending this to you this
>morning. i would just say -oh well, she's out of the cave again, it's
>business as usual.
>
>several have mentioned that you yourself have non de plumes on the list.
>more and more i believe this is true. i repeat my request from yesterday.
>please please get some help.  you seem to crave attention and control. when
>you announced you were going into your cave, i knew you wouldn't be there
>long. you waited until you heard some voices speak appreciation of you-
>just like other incidents - even to last year when you said you were going
>to leave the list - then came back with another name and said, 'see how
>easy it is to do' which i guess was trying to prove your point.
>
>but--
>i cannot believe that someone so clever, so intelligent as you would
>continue some of your practices....... making yourself self-appointed list
>elfette, goddess, whatever. we do appreciate your help in some areas. but
>your refusal to refer newbies or those who want to unsubscribe to john's
>page instead of your own (which if you looked at it objectively is terribly
>hard to navigate - and some of your links do not work). these are people
>who are not computer literate, and you should refer them to the simple
>'point and click' they're used to as a way of exiting from the list. after
>i posted the 'easy way to unsubscribe' this is what one woman emailed me
>privately:
>
> >If this works, I will be grateful.<
>
>and from you? a remark like 'oh look a volunteer to help the list goddess,
>how nice..........
>
>can you not admit that there are others on the list who also should
>participate in helping --without your harsh criticism? can you not see your
>destructiveness when you imagine, investigate, and accuse other list
>members of not being who they say they are? do you not remember the last
>incident when you falsely accused greg sterling of being db, then said
>you'd received threatening phone calls - and barb p called the police
>because she was frightened by this?
>
>i am sending this to you privately since another list member i think you
>respect asked me not to post this to the entire list. however from past
>experience i expect that you will post this to the list with your rebuttal.
>it isn't my intention to have a spitting contest with you. some how you
>have to come to terms that this is not just 'your' list - it is 'our' list
>- all of us. barb p is the list owner. we respect that - do you? you may
>say so when you post, but some of your actions do not.
>
>barb k

janet paterson
53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd
tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/"
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