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- From: allan@slab.unt.edu (Mark Allan)
- Subject: Re: Practice Random Kindness
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:42:38 GMT
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- >
- >>uhm... if i might point out.... anything planned is not in any way, shape or
- >>form random... tho it may or may not be interesting...
- >
- >Well, you're right! Forget the random part then. I hope it is
- >interesting to some. I am sure I'll find out about that though! :-))
- Just to quibble, since I'm posting anyway (see below), I think it
- depends on whose perspective your coming from whether its random or not.
- If your the person its happening to, it certainly appears random, if its
- unexpected (e.g. from a stranger, etc.) So this could be considered a
- random act of kindness. However, now that we know about it.... Oh, well,
- it was a random act at the time you originally posted the announcement.
-
- Yes, I always got that feeling when I posted here. I imagined a big>
- lurker circle in the sky of who knows whom reading all the posts.>The
- concept of the lurker is very interesting to me. Voyeuristic?>Shy? Who
- knows. Perhaps as many reasons as there are lurkers.
- Definately. Don't
- know whether I'd be considered a lurker or not, but oftentimes I just have
- nothing to say. I come for the "atmosphere": to add to the miasma that so
- often hangs around me. I imagine many others do to, and just to partake of
- the atmosphere in quiet. - Mark
-
- Allan@slab.unt.edu
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