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Skriven 2011-10-08 00:34:16 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 22543 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: FidoNews Vol. 28 No. 40 Sustainability IV
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Hi Richard,

> I struggled with that instrument too as a kid, small
> fingers, I knew where the notes were, I just had trouble
> with the hand contortions.

I have long fingers :)  really, this is something my piano teacher mentioned to
me.. it's the way that one holds your hands when getting ready to play that he
complimented me on.. I had no idea it was "right".. it just felt right to
 me. What killed me with guitar was the pain you get on your fingertips when
you have to press the strings.. maybe it was just MS making everything worse in
that respect (I've had MS for for about 36 years now <g>) I'm still walking and
playing piano, but things like the guitar kick off too many nerve pains or
something <g>

>> Sure, sometimes the gating software available is lucky to be able to
>> filter out spam, nevermind specific  messages..

> RIght, and a lot of the newsgroups related to the various
> professional sports teams are mainly spam from what I've
> seen.

hehe.. I hate sports.. used to love watching Bjorn Borg play tennis though :) I
guess part of that is not being able to even f'n run anymore.. bummer. So I've
not seen the spam there.

>> Yes, that's a place (an echo) where two heads can together pull out
>> ideas for topics to start discussions, or carry on discussions with
>> people.

> Indeed, and why I asked Marc to co-mod binkley with me when
> SEan asked me to take it on.

Sure, if one of you can't come up with topics of interest, maybe the other can.

[...]
>> Yes, MEMORIES does generate a bit of traffic compared to some echos
>> :) I read through it now and again when I have some time <g>  and
>> you're right about the community there.  It's similar to the
>> community in nature but always the same users, as in the cooking
>> echo. The community in the cooking echo is so neat that they still
>> have at least one get together a year - we hosted it two or three
>> years ago, perhaps we'll do it again this coming summer.

> YEp have heard about those.  sOmetimes they just develop
> naturally.

Yeah.. very neat to actually meet the people you've been typing to :) Another
FIDONET+ :)

[...]
> nationally, and that's not a good thing.  THe level of civil discourse isn't
> what it was, which accounts for some of it.
> I have no desire to get involved in that.

Yeah.. these days I can sure understand that one :) I still try to read it now
again though.. it's like reading the conservative pulse of the country...
scarey even sometimes <vbg>

[...]
>> That's sad.. though from what I've seen a good number of newsgroups
>> have floundered much in the same way as fidonet echos as people took
>> off for places like facebook and web blogs, etc.

> INdeed, but the quality of the people who remain has a lot
> to do with whether an echo or newsgroup thrives.  Even the
> rec group I mentioned has lost many good people who got fed
> up, who probably would have enjoyed a fIdonet echo on the
> same topics, but some of them were well respected folks in
> the business who could get the resources together to put up
> their own web forums.  A lot more fragmentation, and lots of competition.
> That's why we've got to get better at what we
> do, although our FTSC chairman says it's all a waste of
> time.  NO it's not a waste of time, if we sharpen up our
> game a little bit.

Boy do I agree there as far as our FTSC chairmen :) He has a feeling all is for
nought.. though I can agree that we'll never see the numbers we saw in the
90's, we sure can try... because those people who were here years ago may
decide to see where things are at today. :) Several sysops have, so it makes
sense the users will as well.

>> Over here, I have a user that started an echo for his Mensa friends
>> where the topic is esperanto.. a language they are intent on keeping
>> alive <smile>

> YEp, I've seen small groups try to keep that one alive in
> the ham radio world oto.  trouble with that one is they were too late,

True, but for them It's important.. and timely.

> default pretty much made English the international language. WOuld esperanto
> have been better?  DOn't know, never learned it.

Me neither though I have always loved languages...I can read esperanto when
they post in the echo, but I wouldn't try to write in it :)

Take care,
Janis

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