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Hi all,
I've been lurking on this list since mid-September. And,
since I find some useful "gems" among the many posts to this fo-
rum, I thought I might come out of hiding for a moment and intro-
duce myself so that folks would know who I am when I do finally
interact with the list.
My name is Bill Parrette. I pronounce the last name like bar-
rette (a bar or clasp for holding a girl's hair in place) with a
'P.' I live in a suburb of Cincinnati, OH called Westchester
where I am employed as a UNIX trainer and course developer. In a
class I was teaching back in September, one of my students no-
ticed my tremors and told me about this mailing list. So, my
thanks go out to Carl McLeod (and, indirectly, his wife who is on
this list) for telling me how to get subscribed.
I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease some three years ago.
But, since I get rather verbose, long-winded, and wordy when I
write (a condition not uncommon among teachers and published au-
thors :-) ), instead of taking up a lot of bandwidth in this fo-
rum and wasting people's time who are not interested, let me
point you to a Web-page I have written that tells a little of my
disease history:
http://w3.one.net/~wap/wapTremorStory.html
As a brief aside, I have been on the 'Net for about six years.
I have been on *many* mailing lists in that time and, in fact,
administer a list myself. And, what I want to pass on to the
folks here is that the Parkinson's mailing list "issues" that
people have been discussing recently -- list volume, list police,
on-topic posting, etc. -- are subjects that come up *everywhere*
(even on the list I administer) all of the time. So, as far as I
can tell, this list is very typical in its 'Net personality.
(BTW, my list is configured to automatically send replies to the
original sender instead of the list. IMHO, this is the best way
to configure a mailing list.)
And, (in no way am I flaming, or intending to be mean-spirit-
ed, or saying anything bad about anybody or anything on-list)
here is my Internet 'Netiquette promise to my fellow list-mem-
bers:
* I will always post in plain ASCII text to the list --
you will never see any HTML or MIME-encoded data in
my posts.
* I will never "quote" the entire text of a message I
reply to on-list. I will only include those portions
of the original sender's post that are relevant to
my reply and that give it context.
* I will use the carriage-return frequently and
guarantee that no lines in any message I send will
be longer than 80 characters.
* If the text of my reply heads off in a different
direction than the original post, I will change the
"Subject: " header to reflect the change in subject.
* If my post is not directly related to the list-topic,
I will put "OFF TOPIC: " in the "Subject: " header.
* I will not post any large files -- graphics, sounds,
movies, whatever -- directly to the list
FWIW -- this is just how I do things. Oh, and BTW, it is my
opinion that everyone should subscribe to the digest version of
the list at least once in their list-stay -- even if it is just
for a day or two. It is really eye-opening! ;-)
Anyway, I'll go back into hiding now as I head on over to my
list to try to extinguish the last few embers of some recent
flame-wars. But, I will be listening and assimilating some of
the useful information that I find on the Parkinson's mailing
list. Thank you for reading and, as I am often wont to say in
closing, may you always grok in fullness ...
Bill--
...who keeps emotionally active by catering to his favorite neurosis.
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