Yesterday, after a few months of quietly poking and prodding
and trying to get the sense of what a specific and fairly new
community beleives, I decided to disconnect myself.

Some of this was because I feel a stirring in some of the
other communities I try to be part of, and I've been reminded
of the amazing love that is there. Some is because they are
just so horrifically bad at using e-mail that I can't help but
flinch when I see it. But mostly I think it's because they
profess to feel love for everyone, and yet still fiercely
maintain a very strong sense of a seperate "them."

Defining a "them" is very subtle sometimes. Many of the most
enlightened beings that I have the pleasure of knowing will
still fall into that trap, especially when talking about
politics (WE wouldn't allow those policies, it must be THEM.)

     I haven't read an issue of PC Week in months, so I can't comment there. However, I find it disheartening to see supposedly serious computer magazines throwing around phrases like "as unintelligable as Unix" only a few pages away from telling you how & when to edit your DOS config.sys file.
     I have not yet found a single person who has switched from DOS to Unix and regretted the move after their first few weeks. The only reason I can comprehend that somebody would be scared of a csh prompt is if they're scared of /all/ command lines. (In a favorite newsgroup of mine which shall go nameless because we'd prefer to stay hidden, those are usually referred to as the "click-and-drool" type.)