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sharing a letter
« on: February 03, 2006, 10:43:55 AM »
http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2006/02/02/mistake/

Hi all,
I wanted to share a letter with you. The link above takes you to Cary Tennis' column from yesterday. Down at the bottom is a link that says, Read Letters About This Article. In the letters, there's one called "Talking About Torment", signed by Pacem (me).

Love,
Hopalong
« Last Edit: February 15, 2006, 05:57:50 PM by voicel2 »

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Re: sharing a letter
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2006, 10:53:30 AM »
PS--If you don't have time to read all of them, select the Editors Choice option, there are just a couple of pages. (I have learned a lot from reading his column for a few years, and I learn as much or even more from the letter writers. Thought some of you would like it too.) xo, Hop
« Last Edit: February 15, 2006, 05:58:21 PM by voicel2 »

Portia

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Re: sharing a letter
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2006, 07:58:58 AM »
Hiya Hopalong how do you feeeeel?
Embarrassed?
Happy?
Okay?
This one is nearer the top again! whooooo scary?

Nahh. Junk it. It’s a thread! Just me popping in to say, hey I read your letter, it was good, I enjoyed it. But……I didn’t read the whole story about the woman at Salon coz it asks me to register and to be honest…..I’m a lazy cow at times. I couldn’t be doing with registering and stuff. But this Salon site has been recommended to me before. Ages ago! Should I register? Make the effort? Will it be worth it? haha I’m asking you to motivate me! So I can read your letter with a greater understanding. How mean is that? In the time it’s taken to write this post, I could’ve done it, registered I mean. But then you wouldn’t have known I read your letter right? Tricky. Allocation of time and resources. So I decided it was a better deal to reply to you than register.

And to say, hey, post what you want to. And if no-one replies? They might be lazy like me, or they might not be interested (sad but true) or they might think yeah, interesting but no need to reply. Lots of reasons. It doesn’t mean you’re wrong for posting, or that ‘everyone’ is thinking something weird about you. After all, there isn’t an ‘everyone’ at all (anywhere). It’s just lots of individuals doing our own stuff, as we do.

So this Salon thing, it’s a good deal eh? I won’t get lots of spam and stuff if I register?

Hopalong

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Re: sharing a letter
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2006, 08:23:06 AM »
VERY VERY GOOD advice (about not taking silence or disinterest personally). Thanks, Portia...

Actually you don't have to register or subscribe to read Salon. I dont', and read it every single day. No registering, no spam, no problems.

All you do is click in the upper right corner, where it says click here to watch an ad and enter free...

The ad takes a couple secs, then you look for where the ad finishes and "Enter Salon" will pop up. Click there and you're in.

Hope that made sense, i'm a Luddite.

Thanks for reading it though.
Hops
"That'll do, pig, that'll do."

Portia

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Re: sharing a letter
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2006, 08:51:53 AM »
Oh! I didn't know that. This is new to me. Thanks. Okay when I'm done here I'll get my lazy butt over there.... :D