Guest guest Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 Sorry, I am too tired of all of this to think of a long specific subject line. Here's a thought, no one has considered. As I have said before, I have had to receive " on of those emails " from Ken twice now reigning me back in. However, it was done diplomatically, carefully, professionally and most importantly OFF LIST. Perhaps this entire catastrophe should have been handled off list in the first place, as KEN the moderator has always done. What have we got now? A huge controversy that is probably scaring away those new people that complain about our silly emails in the first place. In the past week we have had TWO great ladies join from Canada, and both live within spitting distance of me......the first time in 6 years!!! and I for one, do NOT want them scared off by-----no not chatting emails, no not mislabelled subject lines but by something that was known to cause controversy as it did back in the fall the first time it was presented. I begged not to leave this group. You know I have an excellent friendship with her off list and I will not suffer in any shape or form for her not being HERE to post. But I have come to respect more and more each day for the hours of time she has dedicated to this list. As Sheldon is our official welcomer and has such a calm and peaceful way of informing new people they have found a place like no other in the world, was our keeper of the faith. Read her emails again carefully. She is the one offering her private assistance, she is the one phoning people (her phone bill must be huge!!) she is the one who ends every email with a beautiful, sentimental sentence or two that says she really cares about YOU. I wish she had been around when I had first joined. SHE is the one who makes all the new people think " this is such a special place to be " ; this lady who has had her son in the hospital 5 times recently, has time to write and ask me if I am OK!!! And does that with EVERYONE. So while I will not suffer for her absence, every single new person who graces this door step from here on in, will suffer for not having a chance to feel that they are cared for by someone out there in this world. I am sure at this point, her children will be the beneficiaries of her new found time---the hours she use to devote here, will go elsewhere, and all the people to come from here on in will have missed knowing one special lady. And that is a shame, considering the protection of the new people was what started this all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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