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[heidi tandy]

--- GulPlum <hp at plum.cream.org> wrote:> 
> >I don't know what Red Hen is - never heard of it -
> so
> >someone else can explain that.
> 
> Red Hen isn't a discussion site. It's JOdel's web
> site, to which he makes 
> occasional reference on the list.

No wonder I didn't put 2 + 2 together - I have it
bookmarked as The JOdel Site...

And I concurr with Richard about alt.fan.harry-potter.
I've posted there but not with any regularity,
although using Deja.com makes it easier to search than
Yahoogroups, in a lot of ways. But it is difficult to
get used to newsgroups if you've never been in them
before - although I've heard the same thing about
mailing lists and message boards. 

Which leads me to my question:

How many of you have your first experience with
Usenet, mailing lists or message boards because of
your interest in HP?

And what's it like, being a newbie to both the
list/board/group *and* to the concept/method of
discussion? What do you think when you see the style
of posting, etc.?

I started using Usenet back in 92, and mailing lists
in 93, which is about a third of my life, so it's a
bit second nature to me. I know to lurk for a bit
before posting, or at least read a few days' posts +
the Rules all at once, and I can read a number of
different "quoting" styles with ease. But what do you
think of all those 
> something someone said
>> something someone else said
> something the first person said
My own comments

And the concept of replying and having thousands of
people potentially read your reply, and all that jazz?

Is it weird, if you've never done it before?




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heidi tandy

They say its a sign of mental health to hold apparently contradictory ideas in your mind. The world of late has been a particularly exotic stew of horror and beauty. There are killers, there are saints. The trick is to find the right spot on the spectrum between abject despair and total obliviousness. And then carry on...
Joel Achenbach