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sorry if this is a duplication my mailserver is acting up again hi all perhaps listmembers who are relatively new to this list and/or the internet are not aware of the essential differences between 'chat' rooms, 'newsgroups', 'bulletin boards', and 'e-mailing lists'. they are all means of communication between 'cyber-nauts' with varying degrees of 'immediacy' or response time. there are lots of more specific differences too, but the main advantage of an e-mail mailing list like ours is access to the list archives [maintained at no cost to us by the university of toronto, eh?] meaning... every message ever posted here since november 1993 when barb patterson started it as the "parkinson's disease information exchange network" meaning... every joke, every spam, every virus warning, every news item, every pubmed article, every rant, every argument, every pig reference, every "you go, girl!", every constipation question, every pan forum meeting result, every urban legend, every poem, every moment of shared joy and pain, you name it... they are all in there, folks, for your enlightenment at your door-to-door e-mail convenience [see my web site for list-server search instructions] the potential of the archives as a resource struck me way back in 1996 when i was living in 'paradise'... it still does and i still am janet proud pienet list elfette ====================================================================== Post: 009114 Date: 29 Feb 1996 Subj: Re: Speaking our minds here ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello All; The most obvious benefit of this list, is the personal communication that takes place between listmembers. However, in the long term, the other benefit - the Archives - may prove to be equally or possibly even more valuable. Since every message ever posted to the list is stored permanently in the archives, we have access to perhaps the most comprehensive one-stop-shop of Parkie information in the world. Accessible for searching by virtually anyone. As this resource keeps growing, who knows what correlation or 'eureka' coincidence might be noticed by a future searcher, whether in 6 weeks, 6 months, or 6 years. Posting a message to this list is like planting a seed. Janet from the garden in the ocean ====================================================================== "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/wordspie/199602/009114.html" janet paterson 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/" email: [log in to unmask] smail: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada