Re: Lovehounders

[Anders Hultman <anders.hultman@unisource.se>]

p0070421@brookes.ac.uk (smith david rt) wrote:
> I think this has been said before but occasisonally I get the feeling
> that Lovehounds is a very close-knit community (I would include Chris
> and Vickie, IED, Pete Manchester, Steveo, Uli, Doug amongst others).
> 
> On occasion I feel that newcomers and people like myself can find this
> community a bit overpowering and extremely hard to get into. People are
> probably sometimes afraid to voice their own opions for fear of being
> flamed alived or in the case of newcomers they read their digests and 
> unsubscribe immediately because they don't like what they see.

Every newsgroup is hard to get in to. It's just like when you're sitting 
with a bunch of friends at the pub and somebody else just stumbles in to 
your table. Sometimes you greet them and make a new friend for life, 
sometimes you wonder what creepy thing the cat brought in.

I'm not one of the core members of this group, and maybe never will be, 
but that's not the point. You don't have to take things said in news groups 
personally. You have to notice the difference between persons and opinions.
When someone is bashing your opinions it doesn't mean they're bashing you.
When someone says you're wrong it doesn't mean your wrong, nor does it 
mean that they're right. But it's always a good thing to "listen to the 
voice of experience" -- I do.

anders