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Re: Greetings
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lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.au
Date: 
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 03:42:02 GMT
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In a similar vein, we have a rather low tolerance when it comes to self
important folk, niggly administrative overlords, and religious zealots (and
there's a few of those bouncing around the theme groups - so I'm told :-)

This is certainly true for me. I find loc.au to be a more tolerant place than
some other corners of LUGnet (anyone visited .direct recently!), and I think
this is because I have physically met a lot of the loc.au regulars. I think
that, having met a person, one is more able to "read between the lines" of
their postings. When you just have the words in front of you, I think it's
easy to misinterpret (usually negatively) what is being said.

Kerry



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  Re: Greetings
 
(...) Mmmmm. I have noticed that we (Australians) tend more to keep to ourselves rather than fan out into the theme groups. Even those of us that start out mainly in theme groups tend to end up back chiefly in loc.au I guess a consequence would be a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.au)

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