Personal observations here. I do not intend to hurt anybody's feelings.
Silk is, after all, primarily a circle of FoU. U always said he was a
collector of interesting people and what I have seen and read on Silk
certainly proves that.
But it seems to me that a circle of friends always has the effect of
increasing the "comfort zone" over time, after which guards drop and we start
getting more "personal".
I refer in passing to the index page of Silk that supposedly advertises the
list:
silklist -- Intelligent Conversation
About silklist :
silk-list is a place to have knowledgable, civil and most of all, _fun_
conversations about technology, philosophy, culture and whatever else we want
to talk about. We have only two rules: no ad hominem, and no spam.
Time was when conversations tended to be relatively highbrow and intense.
But don't; people think that we have now broken a particular barrier in
being "comfortable as home" on silk - and that is reflected in the topics
that have started appearing on Silk? For example:
* Sponsor request for club membership
* Laptop repair info requested
* Phone repair information requested
* Old coin sales info requested
* Personal services info requested
Nothing wrong in these things, but I think that this is not in keeping with
the Silk list that used to be.
I re-iterate my disclaimer. No insult or hurt intended to anyone.
shiv
