Mind's Eye Re: Mind Courtesies

Bring back that old rigsy! You are welcome indeed Bill. We have
trouble staying on topic, but this is part of the charm.

On 15 Oct, 05:01, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> On Oct 13, 6:03 pm, William L Houts <luka...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey Friends,
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> >    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.
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> > So here's a little bouquet for you all, and a ghostly boo! just to be a little season appropriate.
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> > Cheers and fond wishes,
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> > --Bill
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> >   --
> > "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
> >   and boy are my arms tired."

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