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Barb, Should I be running for cover or are we actually talking about "peeping"? -----Original Message----- From: Barb_MSN <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 2:06 AM Subject: Re: The Parkinsn List Online..Too Much Volume Solved Forever.. >Errrrr.... My feeling about this "open window" which will permit any >"online peeing Tom" to surreptitiously read our List messages would >be JUST like living on "The Truman Show!" > >Thanks, but no thanks! > >GOOO O O O NNNNNNNG.... <---"gonging" this idea, like they did on >that old TV program, "The Gong Show, " when an act stunk! > >Barb Mallut > >[log in to unmask] >-----Original Message----- >From: Hilary Blue <[log in to unmask]> >To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN ><[log in to unmask]> >Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 10:23 PM >Subject: Re: The Parkinsn List Online..Too Much Volume Solved >Forever.. > > >>> >Dear John, and the list (and soon the whole world) >>> > I am just a little concerned. About going public. Yes me, The >same me >>> >that >>> >asked Parbara patterson why the responses to her survey about >>> >publishing >>> >everything to the whole list wasn't published to the whole list? >>> >Because >>> >there is a difference, you see. >>> >I'm really a very private person. But I open up to my friends. To >>> >those >>> >people I feel close to, and I feel are close to me. And that is >what >>> >the list >>> >has become for me. A group of close intimate frineds with whom I >can >>> >share my >>> >innermost fears, and my pride in my successes. >>> >And when we go on line, I lose that. >>> >That intimacy,that bond of caring, is what makes the list so >>> >special.And the >>> >feeling that we were all part of something, something that we >shared. >>> >And now >>> >something else has changed. The balance of power is disturbed - >no >>> >the >>> >balance of power has been created. There was no sense of >onesidedness >>> >before. >>> >>> >>> >Maybe this >>> >was decided while I was in Israel - and I missed the discussion >on the >>> >list? >>> >About whether we go on line and share our private, intimate, >personal >>> >ways of >>> >dealing with our lifecrises. No, folks, I'm sorry, but I will not >feel >>> >free to >>> >participate if I know the whole world - friend and foe alike, is >>> >watching >>> >me. Whether they do or not, just knowing they can inhibits my >ability >>> >to speak >>> >freely. >>> > I know I am a fairly new member, and I haven't seen the list >grow up, >>> >like >>> >some of you have. But it has become very dear to me - and so have >you >>> >all. I >>> >feel almost a sense of betrayal, to be cast out in the wide cold >>> >public again. >>> >Am I the only one who feels like this? I am sure there are others >of >>> >you out >>> >there who feel this way. I am not unique. Speak up before it is >too >>> >late! >>> > >>> >hiLary bLue (50/33/24) >>