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At 06:35 AM 2000/03/16 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote: >Hi Janet, >Don't take my "math" as a literal exact accounting. That was not >the point or intent... Sorry, I didn't convey my message clearly... >The "math" I tried to point out was .1% or 1 in a thousand... >I guess I should have said.... >I get most of my Parkinson's knowledge from interacting with all >of you on the list, as I'm sure many, if not most, will readily agree. >Before the List I knew zip... now I'm "1 in a thousand" with all of you. >For each of us there are "999" others wandering through Parkinson's >without the knowledge, care, and support this List provides... >Shouldn't we share?? .......................... murray hi murray share? absolutely! positively! and that's eggzackly what we are doing right here and right now in re the numbers game a lot of the individual subscriptions to pieNET go to so-called 'list exploders' - members who share the info and support here with their support groups or other individuals who aren't 'wired' this list and its associated archives have to be imho the most comprehensive all-round source for pd information both anecdotal and clinical in the world which source did not even exist 8 years ago and which source was just about the only kid on the block 4 years ago and which source is surrounded by cyber-neighbours now the 'spin-off city' effect and the grass-roots advocacy effect are but two of the powerful and pervasive influences that pieNET has left in its wake as it goes chugging from sea to sea nosing into newly dug-out internet harbours and ports how else would i have discovered jim cordy [e.g.] [along with so many others] to be a hero of mine? maybe the growth in 'hard' membership numbers appears to be slowing i look on the wake left spreading behind us as a tsunami still gathering ether power how's them for mixed metaphors?! oops... did i just get on a rant? um... what was the question again? janet janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0