Mind's Eye Re: Mind Courtesies

Yes- this is a sweet hangout and it's good you have joined. I thought
early on that much of the nastinest could have been avoided if people
had been required to use their real names thus being responsible for
their posts however many felt that tags would allow greater freedom of
expression and also protection. There are certainly many inane nasty
writers/opinionators that use their proper name. Anyway, I have
mellowed. :-) In my "salad days" on the internet forums, I could be a
wild thing esp. after a few drinks and with a similar lively group-
chalk it up to experience, learning the hard way, the mystery of
ardent spirits- whatever.// I think there is a difference in school
smarts and life smarts...unfortunately.

On Oct 13, 6:03 pm, William L Houts <luka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Friends,
>
> This is just to say that I feel right blessed to have fallen in with a
> group of such affable smart people.  Like all of you, I'm betting, I've
> been sailing Net oceans since their  very beginnings on college Usenet
> groups, and even before that on BBS systems.
>
> The difference here, I find,  is a spirit of collaboration in
> discussions, rather than some digital wartime ethic of cutting each
> other off at the knees.
>
>    It makes for better reading, and for a kind of warm glowy pro-human feeling which, it seems, you don't often find on Net discussion groups; and I've checked out dozens of them, both on Google and Yahoo.  Also, I'm not the smartest one here for a change, and I enjoy hearing the arias performed by your singing minds.
>
> So here's a little bouquet for you all, and a ghostly boo! just to be a little season appropriate.
>
> Cheers and fond wishes,
>
> --Bill
>
>   --
> "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
>   and boy are my arms tired."

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