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- From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
- Subject: Re: Selective Memory?
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:30:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.191327.20983@netcom.com> solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
- >I think most of the worst cases are cross-posts from soc.motss
- >(except for the "slave" thread and its spinoffs).
-
- Yeah <sigh>.
-
- >The problem is that soc.bi and soc.motss have similar areas of
- >interests but very different cultures. In particular, the level
- >of free-floating hostility is much higher on soc.motss. One
- >antidote is to put a lot of soc.bi ESacharine in the crossposted
- >threads (you know, ESnuggles, ENibbles, etc.). That should drive
- >off most of the chronically angry.
-
- It's not saccharine, Andrew. This place really is (or has been)
- one of the most pleasant, supportive, strengthening environments
- that I've ever e-encountered. That's not due to the sweet words;
- it's the people here are, on the whole, pleasant, supportive and
- strengthening, and that comes out in the way they interact.
-
- It's honey in the cake, not sugar icing.
-
- >This is a problem for some of us; I suppose I might be called an
- >EDiabetic, since I have a very low tolerance for ESyrup. Whenever
- >someone's post says something like "This is my first post here,
- >but" or "What's a muffin, anyway?" I hit 'k' posthaste. And the
- >first time I posted here, I said nothing about muffinhood;
- >somehow I snuck through unscathed.
-
- Here, have some E-hypoglycaemics and lie down...
-
- Snuck? but didn't some of us know you from soc.motss before
- you appeared here?
-
- Kay
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