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hi barb At 12:13 1999/01/26 -0800, you wrote, in part: >George, Walter, et al.... sheesh, there he is again! >.... I've voluntarily cut my volume of responses to questions asked >by fellow List-members, cut my quips and teasing posts, and you'll >hardly ever see me originating new topics any more. i, for one, hate this! you have a brain and a curiosity which i admire and the idea of your voice being squelched makes me feel deprived and i hate feeling deprived >This self-monitoring/limiting has cut the volume my of outgoing >List-mail by more than half since last July (or there abouts). My >motivation was the number of complaints posted (not made directly TO >me, so I don't know if any were meant FOR me) about the high volume >of List-messages posted each day.... are we [all] [possibly] guilty of the half-empty-glass-perception-syndrome [HEGPS] here? have we been paying too much attention to the complainers and discounting the 'i love it the way it is'-ers? don't the 'i love it the way it is'-ers count at least as much? similar to a response that i was thinking of making to backwards george in re his 'attaboy/girl' request: i was going to say to him that my experience has been if i do something wrong, i generally hear about it right quick but if i do something right, i generally hear a profound silence. sorta similar to gerrit's musings in re the 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' brothers [but i'm not sure how] by the way, gerrit, attaboy!!! >.....my natural instinct is to REPLY when I >see a question I can answer, to educate when there's the >opportunity, and to joke and tease when the List-mood appears >to become blue and the collective spirit of the group feels >like it needs a virtual tickle.... absolutely! that is the core and foundation of your spirit and your soul and the idea of muffling its/their expression is anathema to me [now who the heck is she?] just what kind of wimps are we anyway to let a few sad grumps get to us? >Hey folks.... have ANY of ya ever heard "Too many cooks spoil the >broth?" Well, in MY opinion, the PD-List has got waaaay too many >"cooks" in the virtual-List-kitchen right now and the broth IS >tasting kinda spoiled!" YUCK!! yowza! yep yep yep!!! so... "if you cain't staind the heat get the heck outta the kitchen!!" is my thoughtful and considered reply to all complainers and grumps from here on in! are ya with me? yer cyber-sibling from hail 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]