Posted by fayeroe on March 9, 2003, at 9:51:03
In reply to Re: literary message board » Dr. Bob, posted by Ritch on March 2, 2003, at 9:57:49
The board that I was on was sponsored by an e.card website. We had no rules....no book lists to read. We did occasionally post a list of favorites but no required reading. We even posted song lyrics and discussed music alot. We had an occasional maverick who would post something about the end of the world, etc....but mostly it was a group that loved to read and listen to music. We all had post "names". A few of us exchanged e.mails, you could do that through the webmaster, and became friends through e.mails and phone calls. But the majority of the people never revealed who they were and I don't know how to reach them. But it lasted 2-1/2 years and was a lovely way to start your day! Occasionally, someone confided that they were having a rough day or something was going on in their life and we were supportive...but mostly stuck to poetry, books and music and alot of humor. Wednesday was joke day and we all posted the most outrageous jokes we could come up with. There was a man from South Africa, a woman from London, a woman from Ontario, me (Okie), New Jerseyite, Michigan, Rocky Mountains, Florida, New Mexico, Utah, dropper-ins (lots of those)Malaysia,(he's in China now) and undivulged. The woman from Ontario had the best limericks! Oh, and a woman from Bosnia!! Physically the way it worked was ten posts showed at a time. So you could follow the thread all at once and not have to "go to" the message. That was nice. Then you could go to all of the thousands of posts and read til you dropped. One woman read all of them before she posted. The one from Bosnia. We went through divorces, love affairs (one on board), deaths and long trips where we posted from libraries and wherever we could find a computer! Hope this helps. Probably just confused you but it was FUN!
Pat
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