Marianne Hales Harding wrote:
>
> Well, this does make me sad. I don't mind the new format. I'm a member
> of a couple of other similar-format forums, but now I have the
> great dilemma about AML membership since you must be a member to post.
> I'd love to support the AML and all, but I just don't have a spare $25
> hanging around (heck, that's just one copay to go see my doctor,
> something I actually *can't* live without). And since I don't post
> daily or even weekly I suppose you will just have to know I'm out there
> lurking (and then you can think to yourself, "Ah, perhaps Marianne is
> thinking such-and-such about this...") And someday I will just break
> down and pay the money, skip that pap smear or something, which is, I
> suspect, more the point of this move than the clutter of the email and
> the young hip folks wanting something more technologically advanced.
It makes me sad too. I still owe part of August's rent--I can't justify
paying $25 to continue participating. I still have no idea what this RSS
stuff is all about, and I can't see the point of paying $%25 for the
privilege of making it complicated to participate. Nor do I have the
time to figure it out in the appallingly short couple of days notice
that we've been given. Alex Hall and Celia Malm have hurt my feelings
anyway, and you know what a sensitive soul I am.
So I guess I'll be bidding you all farewell, and hope my final message
even gets through before the change takes place to accomodate the
whining young folk with short M-TV attention spans that can't handle 30
emails a day or scrape together enough patience to figure out how the
delete button works for the threads that don't interest them.
P.S. This "new" format is nothing more than a variation of the ancient
BBS format that existed before anyone even heard the phrase "World Wide
Web."
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