[at-l] Goodbye Listers

[Mara Factor]

Hi Slim,

Don't be too quick to give up...  I also frequently get no or very limited 
responses to my posts.  I think I've figured out why.  And I think your 
posts may fall into the same category.

When I post, I try to post complete thoughts, and if relevant present both 
sides to arguments, and why I might think one side makes more sense than 
another.  I don't attack others' positions and stear clear of the politics 
that makes up much of the list traffic at times.

By doing so, I suspect information gets absorbed and appreciated but elicits 
little follow-up.

I frequently use my posts here as the basis for new pages on my web site.  
Through statcounter software, I eventually see which of my web pages get 
traffic, which have links from other places, etc.  Knowing how useful others 
find my web site not only makes the web site worthwhile to maintain, but 
also lets me know that my posts here are also worthwhile.

There are times when I want or need a response and if so, I try to ask 
specific questions and try not to bury them in long messages.

So anyway, however much you decide to participate here, best of luck with 
your hike and have a great time out there.  Keep a lookout for me.  I'll 
probably be hitting the trail on the 14th.

Take care,

Mara
Stitches, AT99
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>From: "Slim aka Nancy" <bogey1 at 650dialup.com>
>To: <at-l at backcountry.net>
>Subject: [at-l] Goodbye  Listers
>Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 07:59:08 -0500
>
>I've been a member of the AT-L List since the mid 1990's and with the
>exception of a few listers I get no response to my posts. Grey Owl 
>suggested
>to me at the PA Ruck to put our start date on the list that the friendly
>folks on the list would respond. But not a one wished us well. I thought
>maybe the list was down so I posted our starting date once more, again no
>response. I think I do not belong here. I notice a great amount of  time 
>and
>effort is spent here in blasting, critizing nearly everything i.e cell
>phones, Wingfoot, WhiteBlaze and now you will criticize me. Pardon me but I
>thought this was community of like-minded people who support and uplift one
>another. I will no longer post here but I will read and when it looks more
>like the friendly community I need and want I may return.  Sincere thanks 
>to
>all you who pulled me in and made me feel welcome here..I will not forget
>you.  For what its worth, C'est la Vie and happy trails.
>Slim aka Nancy
>
>One of my favorite quotes:   "I went to the woods because I wished to live
>deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could
>not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I had come to die, discover
>that I had not lived."
>---Henry David Thoreau
>
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