Parzival,
I missed your PS. I spent thirty-three years teaching writing and British
literature. If I couldn't write, I've wasted my life. Thanks again. I
also, with some trepidation, admit to being an old fogie {;^}.
JP
> You couldn't have said it better! And I feel the same way about it too!
>
> - Parzival
>
> P.S. Some of you old fogies can actually write!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Pendley" <jpendley@xxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] OT : I take exception (Was Off Topic Posts are drowning
out content)
>
>
> > I'm sure every list has its etiquette. One of the charming
idiosyncrasies
> > of this list is that we feel free to digress. Sometimes these OT
threads
> > are of no interest to me. Sometimes they are. Sometimes, I even
initiate
> > them. It's amazing to watch a photographic topic morph into something
not
> > even remotely related. One of the positive and indispensable byproducts
of
> > such digressions is that we get to know each other better as individual
> > people. It's an element of this list I would not forego to remain
rigidly
> > on topic, because I've made some real friends--even though I've never
met
> > them--among the Zuikoholics. In other words, the list is a group of
> > like-minded photagraphers who also get to be pen pals. Still, I've
managed
> > to learn more about things Olympian and photographic than I ever could
have
> > on my own before the net existed; I've learned them in a short period of
> > time, as well. When an OT thread has no interest for me, I can quickly
> > delete posts with subject headings I've learned to recognize. That's a
good
> > way to keep from getting overheated because the subject seems trivial.
I
> > have not been enthralled by the recent fish stories, for example, but I
> > don't begrudge the pleasure that some of us seemed to get from it. It's
> > sort of like TV: if you don't like what you're watching, change the
> > channel--or turn it off.
> > Just MHO.
> > John Pendley
>
>
>
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