Great Email, Janet.
Although I do not have Parkinsons, I do love people with
Parkinsons, amen. I can run errands, cut grass, clean house,
bring a meal. My kids love to help folks, too.

If there is anyone in the Richmond VA area on the list, and
if you need your grass cut, errands done, or just a good visit,
meal cooked or just someone to talk to, email me directly, or
call me directly.
What is great about the internet is that it can be a great resource for
offline communications too.

If you are a member of this list, but have trouble with computer
viruses, or have computer problems, I can help on that some, too.

You folks are great!

OH, want to hear a weirdo story?
I have lots of these in my archives.
 This is really out of left field--and if you want more,
I have 'em.
 http://www.woowoo.dwoloz.com/car.wmv


God Bless You All,

Jeff Bayard
701 Pocono Drive
Richmond, VA 23236
Cell Phone:804-869-4485
Help Fund the Cure!
http://dialforacure.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "janet paterson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: Re-run: Re-vised Re-post: Internet Identities - Who Are We?


> hi all
>
> an encore of
> a re-visioning of
> a re-post of
> a re-minder
>
> janet
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Internet Identities - Who Are We?
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> The miraculous medium which is the Internet provides access to
> unprecedented communication on a global scale. On a personal scale, I
> discovered the PARKINSN listserv support group on-line in July 1995. Both
> events, going on-line and finding a Parkinson's Disease (PD) support
group,
> changed my life.
>
> The Upside: I can now lay claim to a PD cyber-family whose members are
> contributors to several PD forums on-line.
>
> The Downside: I have discovered Internet 'games' - hoaxes, viruses,
flames,
> spam, parodies, cyber-stalking, all perpetrated under the umbrella of
> Multiple Internet Identity Syndrome. This is still an uncontrolled
> frontier, after all.
>
> A brief history. The Internet was created in 1972 for some USA government
> agencies and universities; it was 'free' and limited to plain-text-based
> E-mail messaging. And then the games began: E-mail anonymisers and
> re-mailers entered the scene (begging the question: When does 'anonymising
> one's E-mail address' morph into 'protecting one's privacy' and
'concealing
> one's identity'?)
>
> After the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1991, photographic images
> became WWW-viewable and Internet-transferable. In fact, pornography, much
> of it illegal around the world, comprised the bulk of the initial traffic
> on the WWW. 'Chat rooms' and 'avatar games' where identities are
> re-invented as a given part of the 'action', and which had been popular in
> the text-based Internet world, now flourished.
>
> Enter the general public of the global village, you and I, who want to
look
> up information for homework assignments, or buy a book at amazon.com, or
> check out the hurricane warning, or locate long lost friends and
relatives,
> or share inspiration and experience via a web site, and who don't
> necessarily understand what kind of world they are surfing into.
>
> Anonymity can be used to share ideas, emotions, and information without
> racial, religious, disability, lifestyle, or economic 'factors' getting in
> the way.
>
> Anonymity can also be used to manipulate and deceive with apparent
impunity.
>
> It pays to be circumspect: I would never walk into Central Park or Queen's
> Park or any Park (say) and sit down on a bench donated no-charge by
> Columbia University or the University of Toronto or the Massachusetts
> General Hospital (say) and lay my emotional self bare to a stranger who
> simply happens to be there and sporting a nametag declaring "Hi! I'm Joe
> and I have PD!", just as I would never leave my grandson or my
> granddaughter, not to mention my cats, in the care of a stranger wearing a
> nametag claiming "Hi! I'm Joe and I am a baby- / pet- sitter!"
>
> 'Buyer Beware' or maybe 'Money Talks' pertains here. Most of the WWW
forums
> and chat rooms and website services are free; if we pay 'nothing' for a
> service (e.g. free user names and e-mail at yahoo.com or msn.com or ...
?),
> we need to be cautious about how we use it, especially in this
> market-driven society of ours. Which brings me to the concept of a
> market-driven WWW.
>
> Meshing a non-commercial entity which has been geared to anonymity with a
> commercial community which has to guarantee transaction security above all
> or fail, has one or two inherent potential pitfalls. When telephones were
a
> relatively new technology, some were abused; I worked for the phone
company
> way back when, advising customers on handling obscene or harassing calls.
> Caller ID and other techno-advances have transformed that scourge into a
> virtual antique. Telemarketers are the new version, but technology is
> catching up with them, too (at least I hope it is - where do they get
their
> calling lists from anyway?)
>
> The difference between the telephone communications networks and the
> Internet and WWW communications networks is that the users, you and I, pay
> hard cash for every aspect of telephone service. (I pay Bell Canada $35.00
> every month for the my own phone line and I pay Look Communications [aka
> Idirect.com] $24.56 every month for access to the internet on an unlimited
> basis.)
>
> In a sense, those payment transactions form the basis of our 'id' or
> 'password' or entitlement. I suspect that future Internet users will have
> to ante up something similar, maybe in the form of a combination
internet -
> identity - passport - cashcard.
>
> My cyber-hint for this month? If you join an on-line PD forum, I recommend
> sharing telephone numbers and telephone calls as part of getting
> acquainted. Although my telephone number and my E-mail address have been
> plastered all over the Internet for the past two years, I have NOT
received
> a single unwanted phone call; there is nothing to fear but fear itself;
> trust me!
>
> Do not necessarily suspect all, but do be circumspect with all. The
> 'medium' may not bring the 'message' we expect, but it is still a miracle,
> in my humble opinion.
>
> Marshall MacLuhan's famous quote comprised two parts: "The medium is the
> message and the content is the user". A-men to that!
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> revised and updated 2003/08/02
> ---------------------------------------------
> original published
> in the May 2002 newsletter of:
> Parkinson Society Ottawa,
> 1053 Carling Avenue,
> Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4E9
> Canada
> Tel: 613 722 3241
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit primarily perky, parky
> pd: 56-41-37 cd: 56-44-43 tel: 613-256-8340
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> w-site: www.janetpaterson.net
>
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