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Is this Deja View all over again or what? I've been on this list for 4 1/2 years and we have gone through this at least three times now. Y'all go ahead and discuss it, but I'll tell what the final outcome will be. " This list is not perfect, but it is so much better than a specific subject list. It is the variety of personalities, knowledge, eloquence, and opinions that make this list what it is, 'The best support list on the Internet, PERIOD!' " IMHO Bob Chapman [log in to unmask] Barbara Patterson wrote: > > I am forwarding this message [slightly edited] from a listmember for > discussion. Barb > ***** > Hi Barb, > > I thought I'd ask you this first. I feel like an oddball on this list > because there are a few members who post often and take up a lot of > "space", are fairly articulate, authoritative, etc. You do a great job > keeping the list together and running, but I have thought about the need > for an alternate "shy people's" list, a place where the shy, the tired, the > less articulate, the skeptical, the scared, and even the gloomy could > gather in safety and have voices that don't get drowned out. > > I'm especially thoughtful about a comment that [another member] made > recently about PARKINSN not being a place to share feelings and opinions, > but to convey information. Is that the current perspective? I want a place > to share feelings and opinions. What would be your feeling about someone > starting up a less intimidating forum for shy person's sharing about issues > relating to having Parkinson's Disease? I know nothing about how to do this > but would find out as needed. > > Hope you're doing well and don't regard these comments as mutinous.