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I feel very much as 'bout the list and it's membership as Janet claims to feel. And I'm Sooooo sick and tired of the same few folks - however earnest they may be - bringing this same subject with new wording up yet ANOTHER time. The List is the List. Some folks post, others lurk, and and a few seem to be stuck in Cyberspace, begging the List members to "unsubscribe" them, having never read the Listserv directions, on how to unsubscribe. Sheeeesh! PLEASE - NOT *another* go 'round on this issue again! Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sunday, January 10, 1999 8:33 PM Subject: the list >hi all > >i don't get it >what's the point of responding privately to posted messages? >isn't the list meant for sharing and exchanging? >the reason for its existence? > >some of us are comfortable with writing and posting and nerdling >i would venture a guess that a lot more of us aren't > >if the vast majority of list-members are long time 'lurkers' >rather than frequent 'contributors' >doesn't that mean that >they like the list the way it is >and they like participating in it the way that they do? > >[i.e. being able to 'listen in' >and learn by 'osmosis' >as it were] > >if someone posts a question to the list and then gets 10 responses >but 8 are private and only 2 are posted to the list >then we are all >losing out >we the present membership >as well as the future membership >and future 'diggers' and searchers of the archives > >i have said before and i will say again >[since my opinion has not been changed by anything i've read in the past month] >the 'problem' with the list 'volume' and the list 'quality' >is in the eyes of the beholders >not in the list > >i saw nothing whatsoever 'wrong' with the list >that needed 'fixing' > >i see only a miracle of its time >and i, for one, feel privileged that >i am able to benefit from it and participate in it > >janet > >janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada ><http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm> >[log in to unmask] >