hi all i've been lurking in the background on holiday with limited internet access but have been reading the list regularly for the past month i m h o [in my humble opinion] every one of us the news relayers the kitty-tale tellers the nerdling technoids the no-chit-chat-perfer-ers the bad-hair-day-complainers the parkinson-symptom sharers the totally-unrelated-goofy-joke pass-it-on-ers the aint-never-touched-a-keyboard-before newbies have a unique contribution to make because each one of us is unique never been seen before never will be seen again we every one of us bring our unique perspectives and our unique experiences here i want to know about it all i want to be able to decide for my own unique reasons which messages are relevant to me and which are not i feel compelled to re-post a couple of my previous messages about this list paraphrasing rose lane we are not responsible for the way people re-act toward us we are only responsible for the way we act toward others your cyber-sibling janet a new voice: http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm 51/10 - endocarb/selegiline/fluoxetine - [log in to unmask] janet paterson