I completely agree with you Cindy. How else can we get to know each other if
all we talk about are bookshare related subjects? A little off topic
discussion is refreshing and insightful.
Allison
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A little kindness
You're right, David. I can only speak for myself, but I admit that I am overly sensitive. I was thinking, childishly, or "picking up my marbles and going home." But I agree with Sue and Kaitlin. This has been a friendly, as well as a helpful list, and lots of people, in addition to Guido and Pratik, whose wild humor I will really miss if they stop posting here, have wonderful senses of humor.
By posting items occasionally off-topic, or making off-topic comments to on-topic posts, people's personalities seem to come across, as they do with the tenor of the on-topic posts. They become individuals and friends. We, at least I, become interested in their lives -- graduate school, jobs, entering college as freshmen, weddings, children -- that's why some people feel they can express their sorrows at certain events in their lives, as well as their happinesses, and we can console as well as share their joys.
I don't initiate off-topic discussions, but I do respond to posts with them when I feel like it. I'm going to do the same as Sue -- continue to be myself. I will try to remember to use OT, which, though sometimes I forget, I usually remember to do and to change the subject line. If, as I think Kellie or Jana said, we all do that, the person who doesn't like to read OT subjects can delete without reading the post.
I might suggest, too, that people who don't like this list subscribe to the bookshare-discuss list instead. I'm on both. Although that, as I understand, was intended for book discussions than for volunteer problem discussions, it seems to be the latter as well as this one -- and I don't think I've seen any, or certainly not many, OT posts there -- only requests for help.
Cindy
earthlink.net> wrote:
Over the past few days some people have been getting a bit aggressive on a couple of topics and it seems some people have needlessly had their feelings hurt.
David Carter
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