From: LouisFors <LouisFors@aol.com>
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:48:31 EDT
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In a message dated 98-04-20 10:18:36 EDT, Mike wrote:

> 
>  	"Sexist" seems like a pretty powerful word to me. I'm not really 
>  sure what it means specifically. I take it to be a pretty "Negative" 
>  term. I never meant to be negative, mean, or slanderous. I was merely 
>  reflecting on an observation. Sorry if I offended anyone.
>  
Mike:

You didn't offend me, for one. 

It'll take more than what you said to raise my blood pressure, and not merely
because I take a drug to keep my pressure down, even though it isn't high to
begin with.  (Modern medicine!)  I regard our conversations here as sharing of
thoughts, generally given with warmth, with sharpness, sometimes with humor,
but always with awareness that this is a sort of community.  Yeah, yeah, I
ponder the nature of cyber communities, and don't really know what they
ultimately mean.  When I asked my friend Marshall McLuhan whether, when he
said, famously, "we live in a global village," that he suspected we would all
become one big happy family.  "Not likely," said he.  "Most people in villages
spend a lot of time snooping and gossiping, often coming to hate each other
intensely," or words to that general effect.  Our little community, or
whatever we are, does a lot better than that, perhaps because of our phsycial
remove from each other.  I remember occasions here when the temperature shot
up for a day or so, but there was always a cooling off  time, signalled by
cessation of exchange, followed by a shift in subject and renewal of our
"conversations."  

I suspect a very good clue to our feeling about each other is how much we
missed these postings when the server was down.  Or do I generalize too much
from my personal experience?

Louis Forsdale