[pct-l] Trimming messages....this will be my last complaint

[Diane Soini]

I am sorry I didn't live up to your expectations when you met me in person. I'm not sure where we met because I don't remember meeting you, but that is always a worry I have when meeting people in person. I am always afraid I won't live up to the expectations and I'm pretty sure I usually don't. The real me is on the trails and this list used to be my little connection with it.

On Apr 21, 2014, at 2:28 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> From: Matt Signore <mpsignore at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Trimming messages....this will be my last
> 	complaint
> To: Carol <museumgirl at me.com>, pct-l <pct-l at backcountry.net>
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> I'm not kidding even a little bit. Diane will often precede her posts with.
> " I have never done <insertrandomanything>. However, I would do this".
> That it is a case of the blind misleading the blind? on about 15% of her
> posts which make up about 90% of the word count on the list.  She has some
> valid points but sifting through a senior thesis to find out her opinion on
> hitch hiking as a man is BOOOOORING and useless.  Because unless I am wrong
> she is a woman.  Meet her in person and she is a wall flower and doesn't
> say a word.  Put her behind the keyboard, and she is the end all be all of
> sage hiking advice.  Whether it is conjecture or experience it isn't worth
> sifting through the word count.
> 
> There is a true value in the art world regarding "white space".  The same
> applies to writing.  There is such a thing as a bullet list.