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Date:         Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:49:19 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Searching the archives, suggestions for successful searching
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <55ac1u$83nj21@smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net>
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Nice.
>
> Ah, but Sam, you miss the point!  Posting is a social experience,
> you get to
> bond with the other vanagonauts and feel yourself the member of an
> elite and
> arcane tribe!
>
> Whereas searching is a solitary, indeed lonely experience, with
> none of the
> warmth of human contact that you get from conferring with your
> cyberbuddies
> on the list...


I am on other lists, like the Apple Newton list, and answers take
forever. I like the immediate attention and passion of this list.


Jim
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