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Hey!-- wait a minute, Barb :-) What's wrong with voicing opinions and sharing feelings on this list? A few months ago this was pretty okay and seemed to conform to list expectations. Did I miss something, an announcement perhaps? No offense intended (really!), but I don't think the list should be ONLY a place where only a few voices discuss political action. Can't we encompass more than that? I don't have a friendly neighborhood support group to go to--I'm the only one under 65 with PD in my town, and I need a place to connect with others in my circumstances. If there are 1600 people on this list and only 10 posting, my guess is that it's being underutilized as a forum for voicing opinions and sharing feelings :-) My humble opinion. Rick, 48/46 >Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:12:08 -0700 >From: Barb_MSN <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Interesting conference > >Art... > >BOING G G! YOU just hit the proverbial nail on >the head, m'friend. > >This wonderful asset that is the Parkinson's >Information Exchange isn't being used to it's >maximum advantage. It seems our collective >and respective intentions are good, however, it >appears many of us kinda run out of steam >within a short while and either go off on another >PD-tangent, or run around in virtual circles, or just >plain poop-out altogether. > >I'm not pointing a finger at anybody - it just seems >many of us find it difficult to maintain our initial >momentum, and eventually inertia takes over (Hey - >lately I'm BIG on inertia) <blush> (GROAN) > >Then we don't necessarily get INFORMATION being >exchanged here on the List, we get folks voicing >OPINIONS and sharing feelings along with some >snippets of real-time meetings and/or symposiums >information. > >Perhaps we're thinking of the List as kinda like >a neighborhood PD support group rather than >the multinational Parkinson's Information Exchange >that it aspsires to be? > >Barb Mallut >[log in to unmask] > > Rick Hermann SPIE Press Manager SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 Phone: 360/676-3290 * Fax: 360/647-1445 * Email: [log in to unmask]