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At 11:03 PM 2000/06/08 -0400, bill parrette <[log in to unmask]>wrote: >....There is absolutely no PD content in this note at all... >... Although I agree with you that the topic you replied to is far >from off-topic in *any* Internet discussion-forum, there have >been a few comments on-list about straying from the defined list- >topic recently and I wanted to try to help those people who are >only interested in Parkinson's Disease topics pass on this one if >they wanted to... i'm sure you know as a list-owner that 1900 members means 1900 different opinions based on my experience as both a silent and a vocal list-member and as a co-list-owner here for a few memorable months this time last year, i feel that the only opinion that really 'counts' in these matters [aside from my own conscience] is our list-mom's [yea barb patterson!] and i don't think her 'list-rules' are that restrictive [they are available on my site in the newbie section] since we are all doing something here that no one has ever done before - sure there are other interest list groups but not a parkinson support group like this especially not one that started in 1993! - for a lot of us, this list is what has kept us plugging away as 'newbies' to the computer- and cyber-worlds despite sometimes seemingly insurmountable technical difficulties and seemingly endless 'stupid' mistakes by other, newer 'newbies' helping each other understand this new medium in any way whether it's cyber-crimes and misdemeanours or the latest parkinsn wwwebsites or listserv instructions or word 97 buttons or ascii text, it's all grist for our 'information exchange' skills and only makes us stronger as a 'cyber-family' if we post humour someone complains if we don't post humour someone complains if we post spirituality someone complains if someone complains about posting spirituality someone complains if we post 50 messages a day someone complains if we post 5 messages a day someone complains if we don't post at all someone complains the trick is, imho of course, and in my experience, remembering that for every one complainer there are at least ten "hear! hear!"-ers who are silent supporters sadly, we all tend to find it 'easier' or more 'comfortable' to hand out criticism rather than praise to tear others down rather than to build others up there seems to be 'a fear of losing' something in giving praise and a feeling of 'superiority' in dishing out non-constructive criticism i am learning that no one of us is 'superior' or 'inferior' that there is nothing to lose and everything to gain ooops, i got onto a rant there myself didn't i? >What is so different about the 'Net that these creeps get off >scott-free?... absolutely nuthin! except that there is no precedent in the history of the world for what's happening here >"...nothing you can do." > Like hell there isn't! huzzah! >> does "privacy" equal "anonymity"? ... > In a word, "!*NO*!" huzzah! >... And, the abuse cycles on. >This has got to stop! huzzah! >... " nobody can do a thing to me." > This is wrong! huzzah! >> i feel no need for "privacy" or "anonymity" in this pd community ... >I am a little more liberal than you on this point. >I feel no need for anonymity in any forum.... same here! huzzah! [i can't remember more than one user name and password anyway!] >...I have very few skeletons in my closet, even fewer secrets to keep... ahah! reminds me of my 'hiding awareness?' mull the other day... huzzah! thanks for making me think i think! janet janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 / PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada visit my website "a new voice" at: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/