From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V6 #3 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Friday, March 14 2003 Volume 06 : Number 003 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: ET: Anyone here? ["Steven J Neville" ] Re: ET: Anyone here? [space_bandits@webtv.net] RE: ET: Anyone here? [John Turner ] RE: ET: Anyone here? [EssenceofCha@netscape.net] ET: RE: Anyone here? [space_bandits@webtv.net] ET: Poem [space_bandits@webtv.net] ET: & let my absence be diminshed ["another stupid kid" ] Re: ET: Anyone here? [space_bandits@webtv.net] Re: ET: Anyone here? [Mike Connell ] Re: ET: Anyone here? [W1GGY2@aol.com] ET: No way... :) ["Mr. Moon" ] Re: ET: Anyone here? [Mike Connell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:42:55 +1100 From: "Steven J Neville" Subject: RE: ET: Anyone here? So, I guess this might help to up the post count a bit!! :-) I was thinking about this list just the other day. Where has everyone gone? I'm trying to think of the regulars. Seth Fulmer, Dr Romeantic, Jamie, Kara Garbe, Mandabear. You guys still out there, I loved reading your poetry and still have a lot of it saved. - - Steven - -----Original Message----- From: owner-eda-thoughts@smoe.org [mailto:owner-eda-thoughts@smoe.org] On Behalf Of rawhite78@aol.com Sent: Friday, 14 March 2003 3:22 PM To: Subject: Re: ET: Anyone here? Roses might be red, Juel's guitar is blue, This had to be said, Mike Connell, this post's for you.... Ugh!!!! :-) Row ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:18:38 -0500 (EST) From: space_bandits@webtv.net Subject: Re: ET: Anyone here? Just 72 emails subscribe here? It has been ages since I've read anything here. I posted once and got bombarded with criticism... :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:41:55 -0800 (PST) From: John Turner Subject: RE: ET: Anyone here? I was thinking the same thing myself, this used to be so alive John - --- Steven J Neville wrote: > So, I guess this might help to up the post count a > bit!! :-) > > I was thinking about this list just the other day. > Where has everyone > gone? I'm trying to think of the regulars. Seth > Fulmer, Dr Romeantic, > Jamie, Kara Garbe, Mandabear. > > You guys still out there, I loved reading your > poetry and still have a > lot of it saved. > > - Steven > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-eda-thoughts@smoe.org > [mailto:owner-eda-thoughts@smoe.org] > On Behalf Of rawhite78@aol.com > Sent: Friday, 14 March 2003 3:22 PM > To: > Subject: Re: ET: Anyone here? > > Roses might be red, > Juel's guitar is blue, > This had to be said, > Mike Connell, this post's > for you.... > > > Ugh!!!! > > :-) > > Row Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:45:31 -0500 From: EssenceofCha@netscape.net Subject: RE: ET: Anyone here? i once was a regular... i was a member back when this list first started about a million years ago. i was known as "nai" mostly... :) i've wondered who lingers about as well... are any of the old faces still lurking in the shadows?? "Steven J Neville" wrote: >So, I guess this might help to up the post count a bit!! :-) > >I was thinking about this list just the other day. Where has everyone >gone? I'm trying to think of the regulars. Seth Fulmer, Dr Romeantic, >Jamie, Kara Garbe, Mandabear. > >You guys still out there, I loved reading your poetry and still have a >lot of it saved. > >- Steven > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-eda-thoughts@smoe.org [mailto:owner-eda-thoughts@smoe.org] >On Behalf Of rawhite78@aol.com >Sent: Friday, 14 March 2003 3:22 PM >To: >Subject: Re: ET: Anyone here? > >Roses might be red, >Juel's guitar is blue, >This had to be said, >Mike Connell, this post's >for you.... > > >Ugh!!!! > >:-) > >Row > __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promos=380455 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:58:41 -0500 (EST) From: space_bandits@webtv.net Subject: ET: RE: Anyone here? How long ago was it that this list was alive? I've been here almost 2 years and have only seen intermittent bursts of activity and still not very much. There was one girl who posted a bit last year that I estblished email correspondence with but she disappeared from the list as well as from my inbox. Wonder if she's still around. Sean ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:02:51 -0500 (EST) From: space_bandits@webtv.net Subject: ET: Poem pour pour pour your mad rivers into me hot troubled streams that give no ease until they overflow and take the coolness from the ivory flesh until there is the peace of exchanged energies. pour pour pour your molten potencies each tiny drop an ocean embryoed in ecstacy each tiny drop the X of the infinity equation solved in madness without thought. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:38:12 -0500 From: "another stupid kid" Subject: ET: & let my absence be diminshed hi all, its been awhile. i figured i'd send a few things. maybe we can get the ball rollin again. - -sam[antha] ;] - --- im up before the sun and trying to forget you. the morning smiles and morning tea. sunrises that i wanted to store under our blankets for days. especially the days when we outslept them. and now, how the moon sings of sleep and the stars of dreams. (i share those dreams with the blankets on your half of the bed) no one but the silence needs me. - --- i saw you i stood there staring youre so much more than however many square inches of flesh you are your hands rosebushes thorns digging into different hearts on different nights yeah youve got my h e a r t buried deep in your roots there i go again letting my words stop at your presence did i ever tell you well i mean do you remember? yeah ill just stare for awhile longer wait for the rain so youandme can flourish - --- she was always the type of woman to dance in the street when no one was looking. exquisite as a princess, shy as a caterpillar. she lay in bed wondering why the sun had to come up the next morning why did she hate where she comes from why do they laugh and smile and why does she have to put on this act. feeling like a ferocious freak from some kind of damn circus sideshow minus the paycheck. one day she went to a place with mad medicine men where they shoved poison down her throat. she never knew there was something wrong with a couple of bottles of pills resting at the bottom of her stomach. she was just trying to put them to rest, they seemed as weary as she was. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:43:33 EST From: JeWeLNuMbEr1FaN@aol.com Subject: ET: heya I just joined this not to long ago i dont remember when, but i've been missing out you guys got some great poetry ~michele ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:07:14 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: ET: RE: Anyone here? At 01:58 PM 3/14/2003, space_bandits@webtv.net wrote: >How long ago was it that this list was alive? I've been here almost 2 >years and have only seen >intermittent bursts of activity and still not very much. Back in the day when Jewel was extremely popular and the regular jewel@smoe.org list had nearly 2,100 subscribers and was averaging ( get this...I kid you not) 250 to 325 emails a DAY (that was 14 digests a day and the Jewel-digests were over twice as large as they are now), this ET list was created to take some of the slack and contain much of the way off topic NJC, especially when I had to make the Jewel list moderated and approve each and every post there (a LOT of work when 100 to 200+ emails came in). Add in bounced/returned emails from dead of full accounts, there were days that I was getting over 3,500 emails in a 8 hour stretch. As Jewel's popularity faded, and the EDA list membership dwindled, the EDA list eventually became unmoderated again. Tha twas about 3 and a half years ago I think. Since THAT occurred, THIS list slowly went down in membership and conversation, plus the fact that it never really is publicized on the EDA list anymore, whereas in the EDA moderated days people were often told about THIS list. There ya have it. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:40:42 -0500 (EST) From: space_bandits@webtv.net Subject: Re: ET: Anyone here? Thanks for the info there Mike. You must have been *crazy* busy back then! How'd you do it?? I didn't think all that many people were even online in '96, '97. I used to belong to the EDA list, but decided to take a break from it and haven't rejoined. I'm leaving webtv shortly for a pc and I will come back to see whats up in EDA land these days. Received: from smtpin-2202.public.lawson.webtv.net (172.16.213.132) by storefull-2198.public.lawson.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:08:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from smoe.org (jane.smoe.org [199.201.145.78]) by smtpin-2202.public.lawson.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id 207E5FE56 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:08:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2EM7vto018601 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:07:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2EM7vLf018600 for eda-thoughts-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:07:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from pronetisp.net (mail.pronetisp.net [12.23.44.4]) by smoe.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id h2EM7tto018592 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:07:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 2853 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2003 21:53:40 -0000 Received: from host-64-179-70-180.syr.choiceone.net (HELO oemcomputer.aol.com) (64.179.70.180) by 0 with SMTP; 14 Mar 2003 21:53:40 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030314164914.0221b280@pop.pronetisp.net> X-Sender: ducksoup@pop.pronetisp.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:07:14 -0500 To: space_bandits@webtv.net, eda-thoughts@smoe.org From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: ET: RE: Anyone here? In-Reply-To: <28321-3E722661-212@storefull-2192.public.lawson.webtv.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-eda-thoughts@smoe.org Precedence: bulk At 01:58 PM 3/14/2003, space_bandits@webtv.net wrote: >How long ago was it that this list was alive? I've been here almost 2 >years and have only seen >intermittent bursts of activity and still not very much. Back in the day when Jewel was extremely popular and the regular jewel@smoe.org list had nearly 2,100 subscribers and was averaging ( get this...I kid you not) 250 to 325 emails a DAY (that was 14 digests a day and the Jewel-digests were over twice as large as they are now), this ET list was created to take some of the slack and contain much of the way off topic NJC, especially when I had to make the Jewel list moderated and approve each and every post there (a LOT of work when 100 to 200+ emails came in). Add in bounced/returned emails from dead of full accounts, there were days that I was getting over 3,500 emails in a 8 hour stretch. As Jewel's popularity faded, and the EDA list membership dwindled, the EDA list eventually became unmoderated again. Tha twas about 3 and a half years ago I think. Since THAT occurred, THIS list slowly went down in membership and conversation, plus the fact that it never really is publicized on the EDA list anymore, whereas in the EDA moderated days people were often told about THIS list. There ya have it. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:51:19 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: ET: Anyone here? At 05:40 PM 3/14/2003, space_bandits@webtv.net wrote: >Thanks for the info there Mike. You must have been *crazy* busy back >then! How'd you do it?? When you are in solitary confinement on death-row for 20 years with countless stays of execution, you have plenty of time to deal with up to 7,000 emails a day. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:36:13 EST From: W1GGY2@aol.com Subject: Re: ET: Anyone here? Sorry, Mike, the governor didn't call this time. ;-) In a message dated 3/14/2003 5:52:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, ducksoup@quackquack.net writes: > When you are in solitary confinement on death-row for 20 years with > countless stays of execution, you have plenty of time to deal with up to > 7,000 emails a day. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 01:40:15 +0100 From: "Mr. Moon" Subject: ET: No way... :) ... did I really just see Naomi and Sam posting? New addys, but I think their the right ones. You guys, I missed you so much. Thanks Mike for the (even if only temporary) resurrection spell - it has already been worth it... and sorry about that message yesterday... in my hurry to be the first to reply (and was) I didn't notice reply going only to you. big shout out to all other ET veterans still lurking out there as well as all of you who already made your presence shown. I also wonder if a dear friend of mine who never posted is still screening this (I didn't even know till my last post 6 months ago). So yes Steven... as Johnny would say... "I'm still heeeeeeeere!" ... it is kind of funny actually... bizarre or ironic if you will... just yesterday this girl broke my heart... and this energy that was created must've bitten Mike in the ass and as he jumped he jump-started this list... this once truly great community... that meant something to me... and forever will I guess. Now I don't know how good of a battery this list has got, but I assume it's a little bit run down... since we all grew up and got a life... or just gotten more busy with growing responsibilities... leaving this place behind as a needed sacrifice... as we all know that no-moderation of EDA list did not kill this one... we just drifted away... slowly. So hopefully we'll make the most out of this reunion, however long it lasts. I know it will probably be a while until I post again... I know myself that much... but since I suddenly have more time on my hands again... it might not be so.... it probably depends on you as well. But to do my part... here's a poem... THOSE SWIMMING LESSONS WILL COME IN HANDY With a simple, gentle touch of my fingertips you curled up in a ball whimpering in protest "not there, sweety - not yet" Removing all but truth we disguised ourselves as desire petrified of what might happen if our agendas really aren't what we thought they were and something went wrong Never much for a compromise your beliefs won't take a plunge making way for something reasonable at the very least sensible that would console my fears to allow spontaneity to surface in this vast body of bodily fluids on which we might find refuge during these times of rough sail Instead you threw me overboard as there is only room for one in a hide-out a safe place with supplies that might last you forever if necessary I learned to swim long ago in conditions much worse than these so me and my huge set of lungs will be OK until someone fishes me out Your sorry excuses will make you test your haven Test it against forever - -- Have fun and stay beautiful Dr. RomeAntic, an angel with the worst stroke of luck and a flash of revelation "My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists- I wish to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings who are only the objects of pity and that kind of love, which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. Dismissing then those pretty feminine phrases, which the men condescendingly use to soften our slavish dependence, and despising that weak elegancy of mind, exquisite sensibility, and sweet docility of manners, supposed to be the sexual characteristics of the weaker vessel, I wish to shew that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex; and that secondary views should be brought to this simple touchstone." ~ Marry Woolstonecraft ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:49:55 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: ET: Anyone here? Amy blurted: >Sorry, Mike, >the governor didn't call this time. >;-) Hardy har har har! Bang, zoom...to the moon Alice! Mike P.S. Let's see how many of you Gen X folk get that reference! ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V6 #3 ********************************