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At 00:50 1999/01/23 -0500, bruce anderson wrote: >I have received about 10 very thoughtful, heartfelt, enlightening posts re >my request. All but one or two went directly to me. Under the old system >all would have had the benefit. List volume was kept down, but at a cost. > >BBA >PS THANKS! to those who helped me out. hi bruce the private vs shared issue is a big concern to me the sharing and caring which i thought was the basic purpose of the list seems to be sliding out of reach bit by bit buckets can be filled or emptied drop by drop for those interested in calculating statistics 80 percent of the shared [and stored = archived] knowledge and help that bruce gained after he was generous enough to share with us by being so unusually forthrightly open about needing antidepressants has vanished into the ether there was virtually no sharing of grief over joe's untimely passing which i cannot help comparing to the outpouring over alan's passing joe wasn't known personally to us in the same way that alan bonander was but the circumstances surrounding joe's passing are of vital import to all of us i feel sad and disappointed and un-family-like janet ps from a slightly different angle all of the 'fix-it' and 'tweak-it' suggestions or actions have come from male listmembers... does "home improvement" [more power!] ring any bells? janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm [log in to unmask]