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Jay..... Ya don' t need to run for cover - just wear a bag over your head and logon to the List as a NEW member under a non-identifiable alias like "Poopsie." NO one'll ever guess you are the originator of any specific post. then. Of COURSE, your fellow List-members won't recognize anything you've authored either! <said tongue in cheek, and please everyone - DON'T start opening dummy List accounts) Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Jay Henkelman <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 9:29 AM Subject: Fw: Re: The Parkinsn List Online..Too Much Volume Solved Forever.. >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) >>> >