On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Am I making sense? > > Udhay
On this list, that's really leading with your chin, Vod ka Raja! While talking about members posting under pseudonyms, I would also like to raise the issue of how many members ARE on this list. It's just my preference, I suppose, but on all egroups that I moderate, I generally update, and regularly circulate, the list of members; sometimes with just their email ids and contact nos, or with a more "social" list, their postal addresses and names of family members too. This certainly (to my mind) increases the feeling of "community". I actually joined one egroup which consists entirely of psuedonyms (ok, ok, it's the Wodehouse egroup) and gave up as I found I had NO clue as to what their real identities were. I didn't really appreciate talking to Psmith or the Empress of Blandings without knowing them at all! On LJ, where I post, too, I have got to know almost my entire "friends" circle by their actual names and identities, even if I may not refer to them that way on the blog. Very often, I desist from making a comment (no cheering allowed) because I wonder if it will be relevant to the whole mailing list, which ought to be the case (I can't abide A telling B on the egroup that just the two of them can meet at C location!)...on this list, I have absolutely no idea of who many of the members (except for some celebrities and some regular posters) are....it's like being in a water body with no idea of its depth, somehow. That doesn't prevent me from opening my big mouth wide and often, of course, but...just saying.... I am not an archive-miner either; so I tend to participate in the present threads, and I lack U's prodigious memory for threads, opinions, and ee tee cee....so if anyone would like to introduce or re-introduce themselves, that *would* be a big plus for me. Anyone else who shares this opinion? Or do people *like* the way other personalities remain anonymous? If that were the case, why are FoU meets popular? Cheers, Deepa.
