🚀 go-pugleaf

robertb@math.mit.edu (Robert Becker) writes:

In article <3mjakc$rm3@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>,
MIDI <midi@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> wrote:
>>Why should someone have to post their address in order to be taken
>>seriously?  I'd actually like to know how she does that.  I also wish

>Hi Midi.  It's just a personal preference.  If I can't place a
>person with a geographical location (i.e., a real email address,
>even anonymous e-mail), they just aren't "real" to me.  Words
>across a page/screen unconnected to something physical is just,
>well, just that: I can't make an emotional connection to the
>person posting, and I only post when something touches me
>emotionally.

This is a prime reason to actually set up group activities, even if it's
just meeting in a public place and talking for a while.  It makes the
people "real", since they're right in front of you and you then can place
the user name with a face. 


>Sorry, no sympathy here.  If I got hundreds of replies to a
>message I'd scan through them quickly for the interesting
>replies, delete the rest.  Eventually I'd choose just a few
>people to steadily converse with, and ignore all other posts
>simply as a matter of survival.  If someone can't handle my not
>replying, I consider them insecure and definitely off any
>possible list.  'Course, this has never happened to me.   :)

If a thing is unusual, it can be quite interesting.  After you've had
something like that happen often, it can cease to be good.  I expect that
a lot of the responses are of the "wanna fuck?" variety.  Read: low grade
stupid immature freshman or high school children e-mail bombing adult
women.  Perhaps that's clearer?  <grin>