OFF: too early to bail.....

[DASLUD at AOL.COM]

i showed up here in jan or feb with my subvox shoes on, and was mostly
greeted by arched eyebrows, folks looking down their noses going (in effect)
"oh...really..."

i then made the titanically gross mistake of sending that girl-hit-by-train
AVI to them, a/k/a "today's mindfuck". the best i got was people quite
offended, and i had overloaded mail servers left and right. very bad scene. i
know a lot more about mail servers nowadays...heh...

later, a fellow boc'er had whatever virus was trendy just then and i
inadvertantly passed it on to half a dozen non-group friends (i have a
macintosh; it couldnt hurt me). then i frantically called or e-mailed all
those people so that they would delete that mail. and they did.....but before
i found at the boc'er in question was as much a victim of the virus as
anyone, i was 'shouting' and cursing up a storm at BOC-L.

these are both examples of my resolving to quit boc-l but not remembering how
to do it. and so i have remained. i had to take off the subvox shoes, but
there are some pretty neat people here, and i think i mended fences where i
had to.

chat groups, of which there are zillions, can be their own little worlds.
this is not to say you've been ignored. i am not thinking so.
one's ability or interest in participating can ebb and flow. yours, mine,
theirs....
some of these folx have been here for a decade. some are involved with a
variety of other chats too. some are what they call 'lurkers' who may or may
not ever post at all.

...and on various occasions i've busted a gut trying to write a post which
would elicit a response, only to get....silence.


but anyway, i think it's too early to be discouraged. your geddy lee anecdote
got a response from mr theo which made me, literally, (lol) laugh out loud.

this is "chatworld", and you've just gotta go with it.....or not.
but me, i think you should consider hanging around, even if you become a
'lurker'.

just gotta pick your spots, comrade.

larry
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