OT (that should keep the obnoxious people quiet)

but most likely not.

Seeing as how people can't figure out how to ignore messages, and one even accused me of posting to a group that i have *never* subscribed to, I figure it will be easier to just say the hell with it and stay with the quilting group, where I haven't gotten flamed for airing my concerns over my child.

Happy sewing everyone, and the hell with romanyroamer and IEZ

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CNYstitcher
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OH, NO!!! Please don't go because of a few rude people! I think that we all need support once in a while and it is a shame that there are a few that refuse to understand that while we all love to sew, we are not chained to our machines 24/7.

Even if we never meet in person, we are all part of a community and community members should support each other whenever someone needs it. Those hard@$$es that don't see the bigger picture are wrong, not you!

Keep us posted and don't give up!

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Poohma

Please don't leave, Larisa. Don't let them win. I have already killfiled them, and I'm sure many others have as well. I don't know what their problem is, and I don't want to know, but they do NOT represent the majority. I suspect they are very bitter people who have nothing better to do than snipe at others to make themselves feel big. Obviously they have way too much free time if they are soooo concerned about your personal posts.

I had two wonderful flames written for these two, but decided upon reflection not to post them. I don't ever flame people, and it didn't seem productive to do so now. They wouldn't get it anyway.

One more thing---I have to say that in the few weeks I have been lurking here I have been quite shocked by the unsympathetic and in some cases downright rude posts by a few of the posters (you know who you are). I have not seen anything like this in any of the other groups I read, and certainly would not expect to see it here.

Dawn

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Stepdawn

Oh, poor Larissa. Need to have about a hundred messages saying "Oh please don't leave"? I'm sure you will. You need to grow up. Just my opinion, although I stopped paying attention to your posts long ago. And in case you hadn't noticed I also post to the quilting group.

And I never said "to hell with you" or anything else nasty. I merely gave another poster my strategy for avoiding postings that she doesn't care to read. Your remark was uncalled for.

Iris

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I.E.Z.

I.E.Z. scrawled in bright red lipstick:

I frankly concur here. Some of us are politely saying that we are just not interested in gory details of **anyone's** personal life. That's not rude, it's emotionally healthy. Those of us, a minority opinion, who are just not interested don't have issues or evil intention - I suspect that like me we feel sad for someone who has to post personal angst on the internet, and rarely seems to take any of the advice that is so generously and profusely offered? I

For me it's not an matter of " suspect they are very bitter people who have nothing better to do than snipe at others to make themselves feel big." That's some pretty off target dimestore analysis. Bitter? I don't think so. I"m just expression my opinion that I think it's inappropriate to go on and on and on about one's personal problems on the internet.

From another point of view... look at is this way. 10 years from now, anyone in the world can google up marital problems, personal problems, health problems.... is that something to be proud of?

Penny S

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Penny S

This is an important point. While we "see" only those posting, there are others reading and posts are archived by Google, and I believe by other search engines. So, anything that we post here could be read by anyone with access to a computer. This is why it is necessary to be cautious about posting personal information like addresses, telephone numbers, full names, links to photos of family, etc. If you think about your post showing up on the front page of your local newspaper before you hit that "send" button, you are a little more cautious about what you say. As Penny says, those archives will be around for a long time!

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Joanne

Yup. I was contacted by someone a couple of times who was doing research for a project, a book, or whatnot because of things I said on Usenet that came up via a DejaNews/Google/whatever search. Actually, the one guy who was writing a book quoted me extensively in one chapter because I had a unique viewpoint for what he needed, and I got an autographed first edition copy of his book as a thank-you. So if it happens to me, it can happen to anybody.

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

I found this little application that puts some headers in your newsgroup posts that prevent it from being archived or Google or Deja. It's pretty cool -

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'm not really interested in anyones personal details either, I'm sureothers are but if someone posts something I'm not interested in I dont readit. If only TVs had killfiles!! Katy M

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Miss-G-

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