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hi all At 09:42 1999/07/13 -0500, murph wrote, in part: >... My concern is for the many who ask to be removed from the list, >stating that they feel overwhelmed by the number of postings. I feel >bad when i see these posts. It makes me wonder if we have lost someone >who has a real need for the compassion frequently shown on this board. >... but let's make sure that we are not losing list members who have >a real need for support other than a funny story. >Best Regards Murph Brown 57/48 for whatever it may be worth [fwimbw] in the 14 days since i took on the duties of acting list mom the PIEnet list has seen the following membership changes: 46 people joined the list and 32 people left the list resulting in a net gain of 14 new subscriptions in 14 days we cannot know for sure why the joiners join or why the leavers leave we cannot know for sure how the joiners found us or what they were 'expecting' but i'd bet dollars to donuts that there are 46 different and unique reasons for joining and 32 different reasons for leaving we are just one 'pd support group' out of many our means of communication may be unique but every day it is less so as the internet grows are we spending time and energy on the 'empty' portion of the glass worrying about things that might have been when we could be spending time and energy on the 'full' portion of the glass celebrating the things we have here and now ? can compassion and humour be considered complementary rather than contradictory ? am i reacting to this discussion from a manichaeistic viewpoint ? janet mulling mist lom janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>