At 02:18 PM 2000/04/12 -0400, you wrote: >Rick here, an infrequent writer, with a short note. Not blaming >anyone, just describing a situation. Following the recent flap >apparently initiated by something a new poster, Cindi Israel, >wrote on this list, Cindi left because she didn't like the "feel" >of the list, couldn't believe all the bickering. She didn't write >10 "I'm leaving" messages. She just left what she felt was a not >too friendly environment. Too bad, because she was looking for >>nformation and couldn't hear it because of all the noise. >Rick 49/47 hi rick this is interesting my nose for news hinted of an aroma around that particular persona first hint: the very first message was a condemnation of the list with advice on how it should be run second hint: spam prayer requests from the same persona to my personal email address [uninvited] if, in fact, the 'noise' got 'in the way' [how in heck does that work with e-mail anyhow?] i would suggest that most of the time we only hear what we want to hear in this month of trying to increase parkinson's awareness and all that wwwonderful wwweb info that murray is posting maybe we should ratchet up the smell-o-meter a notch the wwweb for all its wonders comes with many perils just my other two cents' [cdn] worth 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