Barb,

Should I be running for cover or are we actually talking about "peeping"?


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From: Barb_MSN <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 2:06 AM
Subject: Re: The Parkinsn List Online..Too Much Volume Solved Forever..


>Errrrr.... My feeling about this "open window" which will permit any
>"online peeing Tom" to surreptitiously read our List messages would
>be JUST like living on "The Truman Show!"
>
>Thanks, but no thanks!
>
>GOOO O O  O NNNNNNNG.... <---"gonging" this idea, like they did on
>that old TV program, "The Gong Show, " when an act stunk!
>
>Barb Mallut
>
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>From: Hilary Blue <[log in to unmask]>
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>Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 10:23 PM
>Subject: Re: The Parkinsn List Online..Too Much Volume Solved
>Forever..
>
>
>>> >Dear John, and the list (and soon the whole world)
>>> > I am just a little concerned. About going public. Yes me, The
>same me
>>> >that
>>> >asked Parbara patterson why the responses to her survey about
>>> >publishing
>>> >everything to the whole list wasn't published to the whole list?
>>> >Because
>>> >there is a difference, you see.
>>> >I'm really a very private person. But I open up to my friends. To
>>> >those
>>> >people I feel close to, and I feel are close to me. And that is
>what
>>> >the list
>>> >has become for me. A group of close intimate frineds with whom I
>can
>>> >share my
>>> >innermost fears, and my pride in my successes.
>>> >And when  we go on line, I lose that.
>>> >That intimacy,that bond of caring, is what makes the list so
>>> >special.And the
>>> >feeling that we were all part of something, something that we
>shared.
>>> >And now
>>> >something else has changed.  The balance of power is disturbed -
>no
>>> >the
>>> >balance of power has been created. There was no sense of
>onesidedness
>>> >before.
>>>
>>>
>>> >Maybe this
>>> >was decided while I was in Israel - and I missed the discussion
>on the
>>> >list?
>>> >About whether we go on line and share our private, intimate,
>personal
>>> >ways of
>>> >dealing with our lifecrises. No, folks, I'm sorry, but I will not
>feel
>>> >free to
>>> >participate if I know the whole world - friend and foe alike, is
>>> >watching
>>> >me. Whether they do or not, just knowing they can  inhibits my
>ability
>>> >to speak
>>> >freely.
>>> > I know I am a fairly new member, and I haven't seen the list
>grow up,
>>> >like
>>> >some of you have. But it has become very dear to me - and so have
>you
>>> >all. I
>>> >feel almost a sense of betrayal, to be cast out in the wide cold
>>> >public again.
>>> >Am I the only one who feels like this? I am sure there are others
>of
>>> >you out
>>> >there who feel this way. I am not unique. Speak up before it is
>too
>>> >late!
>>> >
>>> >hiLary bLue (50/33/24)
>>