Dear friends and colleagues,
First of all, I would just like to express my gratitude to all of you on
this list, for a certain wonderful synergy that you all bring... "off"
topics and all... I have learned so much... (and how many times can I say
"all" in one sentence...?)
I am particularly grateful to Marko for starting the list and to Isabelle
for continuing...
My feelings about moving the list are a little bit mixed. Although I have
not read the details of Yahoo's privacy policy, if there is even one iota of
doubt that they do not sell our addresses to spammers, I am all in favour of
doing whatever needs to be done to move the list to a "non-commercial" site
such as a university, as long as the list can continue to be free of charge
and thereby accessible to anyone... As a certain INFP "deep feeler", I have
a certain intangible kind of feeling that Yahoo and other such corporations
don't necessarily host "free" lists out of "warm fuzzies"...
One point for the other side - James raised the issue about the commercial
crap below these messages. For what this is worth, for those who may not
already know, one may "set preferences" at the Yahoo site to receive plain
text only, i.e., cut the offending graphics, allowing one to effectively
ignore the ads...
The name thing doesn't bug me too much. Deferring to our "admin experts",
wouldn't it be fairly easy to somehow go into a setting somehere and simply
delete "temporary"...?
And yes, if an "admin expert" would be so kind as to set up a poll, I would
vote in favour of moving the list as stated above.
Again to all of you, many thanks!
Blessings.
Michael Eckford
Earth, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
My current favourite one-liner and a few other random cool quotes:
The cannibal who ate his mother-in-law - She still disagrees with him.
"In my heart's sequestered chambers lie truths stripped of poet's gloss.
Words alone are vain and vacant and my heart is mute. In response to aching
silence memory summons half-heard voices, and my soul finds primal eloquence
and wraps me in song." -- Jane Griner
"I can't tell you how many times I said to myself, 'Okay, tomorrow you're
not going to do this.' And I would do exactly the same thing, day after day
after day.... -- and I said to myself -- I might have even said it out loud,
I don't remember -- 'I'm never gonna do that again.' And I knew it was true.
. . . Every cell in my body knew it was true." - Barbara Cook,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40488-2002May31.html
"Out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I'll meet you
there." - Rumi
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