Re: Another list? (fwd)

[Bob Chapman <bobc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is this Deja View all over again or what? I've been on this list for 4 1/2
years and we have gone through this at least three times now. Y'all go
ahead and discuss it, but I'll tell what the final outcome will be. " This
list is not perfect, but it is so much better than a specific subject
list. It is the variety of personalities, knowledge, eloquence, and
opinions that make this list what it is, 'The best support list on the
Internet, PERIOD!' " IMHO
Bob Chapman
bobc@xxxxxxxxx

Barbara Patterson wrote:
>
> I am forwarding this message [slightly edited] from a listmember for
> discussion.  Barb
> *****
> Hi Barb,
>
> I thought I'd ask you this first. I feel like an oddball on this list
> because there are a few members who post often and take up a lot of
> "space", are fairly articulate, authoritative, etc. You do a great job
> keeping the list together and running, but I have thought about the need
> for an alternate "shy people's" list, a place where the shy, the tired, the
> less articulate, the skeptical, the scared, and even the gloomy could
> gather in safety and have voices that don't get drowned out.
>
> I'm especially thoughtful about a comment that [another member] made
> recently about PARKINSN not being a place to share feelings and opinions,
> but to convey information. Is that the current perspective? I want a place
> to share feelings and opinions. What would be your feeling about someone
> starting up a less intimidating forum for shy person's sharing about issues
> relating to having Parkinson's Disease? I know nothing about how to do this
> but would find out as needed.
>
> Hope you're doing well and don't regard these comments as mutinous.