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I've never ceased being amazed by how people "sign" their online messages, and especially amazing are the "signatures" of many who post here on our PD list. I've seen everything from a simple first name used as the entire signature to more elaborate ones with clever taglines, and even some taglines that remind me of the advertising along the sideo of a bus. Our Parkie bunch here on the list has it's own "ritual signature add-on," too, besides many of us adding our personal Internet addresses... WE often add a encapsulated "Parkinson's profile," for lack of a better term, by putting the date of our diagnosis, drugs used, and what I think of as our "battle ribbons" ...... the ID of the type of PD-related surgery we've had, if any. I always just use my name (first and last, because there's SOOO many 'Barbs" in this group!) <smile> and also ad my Internet address - and that's it. HOWEVER... as of today, since I've seen a couple of others do it here, I'm going to add my IROC chat (Internet Relay Chat) handle to my own personal signature each time I "sign" a message to be posted here. I'm going to add that because I'm curious as to whom from this list is behind the chat handles I see there in the #parkinsons chat, AND I'd like to see more of our PD list members and more Parkies EVERYWHERE see that additional information on my "signnature," and have them get curious as to what that is! I'd like to see ALL of our list members who spend time in the #parksinsons chat add their chat handle to their personal signature when they post here on the list. Let's dangle our chat handles like the proverbial carrot on a stick in front of everyone who logs on here! I'd like Parkies and caregivers to be lured into asking what that additional line in our signatures stands for, and then we'll tell 'em about the Parkinson's Chat on the Undernet (and I STILL have noooo idea at all why it's called the "Undernet," since it's a part of, and ON the Internet) <oh well, one of life's little mysteries> (smile). I want others with PD to enjoy the special comraderie that I''ve so recently found on what's referred to as the "#parkinson's chat." (Yes..that IS a # you're seeing). Well, folks, that's why I'm adding yet another line of information to my "signature." And if YOU drop into the #parkinsons chat, I hope you'll, identify yourself by the name you go by here on the list so other chat newbies like myself will know who who we're chatting with. Finally, as many of you read a couple of weeks ago, I had a few problems accessing the #parkinsons chat. Nothing major... but aggravating enough that had I beed fairly new to the Internet and/or computers, I might have not so stubbornly pursued getting into that chat. PLUS I was blessed by help from our Parkie list members here all offering me the guidence I needed so I could get where I was going. I don't want other fledgling Parkie chatters to have to deal with the problems I ran into in establishing that first connection, so since John Cottingham and Marvin Gilles (and prolly many others too) have each written and periodically posted a detailed description on how to access the #parkinsons chat, I'm going to post, under separate cover (since this message is already a long one), "Barb M.'s BRIEF & SIMPLE #p Chat Logon Directions." See ya in the #parkinsons chat! Barb Mallut Lil_Honey in the #parkinsons chat [log in to unmask]