Gerry:
>--I was brought up short more times than I like to recall, and burned a few
>times, as well, simply because my enthusiasm was misinterpreted and
>"netiquette" was unknown to me. When JR knocked me off the list a few times,
>as he did you, I had to swallow my pride and not take it personally.

You have the wrong list, Gerry. There is no JR here. No Bob either.

>but we are alienating
>ourselves from fine-tuning if we reject outright anyone whose voice has a
>different ring.

Even Liza's response to forest wasn't rejection. It was incedulity. Who has
been rejected outright?

>But we don't want to miss out on much by "scaring" new
>contributors away by overwhelming them with our own "knowledge" and righteous
>ways.

To me, that's the problem with not challanging the rightousness inherent
in, say, forest's, or Alan's posts. I suspect, though, that you mean it the
problem of myself, Tom, Liza, and/or JL. I can't speak for them but this is
probably a sort of last fling for me around here and I won't be bothering
much more with it soon. But, you know, the idea that a newbie comes here
and is shocked that there is some "post-dogma" or "realistic" comment on
things is great to my way of thinking. When folks think they have found It,
it is probably very useful to see the there are folks who have found It and
threw It away.

Cheers,
Kirt


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