Ok Sinister, I was going to slip out the back door with hardly a word, but I've decided that I owe everyone one here a goodbye. Particularly because of the wonderful people I've met on the Sinister picnics. Why am I leaving? Well, mainly because I can't deal with the shear volume of posts anymore. Fast Cow takes up a good proportion of my life now, and if I was to do that and read all the posts to sinister, well, I'd never be off the internet, and that's really not healthy. Another reason is that I've lost my enthusiasm for the group. When I first join I was inspired by everything, all the ideas floating round, and those whimsical stories, and just the idea that there was a concentration of people who were into the same music as I am. However, I'm becoming more and more bogged down with the rules of the list. Sometimes I like one-line-at-a-time discussions, sometimes I like it when people post nonsense and sometimes I even like it when people have the odd argument (as long as it doesn't turn TOO nasty). This doesn't happen much on this list. There doesn't seem much drive to do anything other than write diary entries. Discussions are lost amid the fray before they really get started. Now, this isn't an attack on the list or anyone on it, there are still some wonderful, clever, witty posts on here, they just aren't for me anymore, at least for a while. www.fastcow.co.uk www.eurosexuals.co.uk Peter +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+