Subject: Re: My Rambling Regrets...
From: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Barb Miller)
Date: 1991-07-27, 18:02
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu

I'm posting a copy of an e-mail message I tried to send to this guy
(although my mailer didn't seem to find him--suppose he wonders why no
one ever talks to him?).  As I was writing it I realized that, as I
castigate him for not posting anything interesting and then blaming
the group for not entertaining him, I myself am guilty of worrying
that I will lose the stimulation of this newsgroup if the flow of
ideas peters out now that the show is over, and yet plenty of partly
coherent ideas have come up as I've read and responded to other
people's postings, but I haven't had time to organize them (and my work
isn't likely to give me a chance for a while).  So I guess this
message could be taken as a reminder to myself and a request to others
to keep thinking and posting.

To: stevedal@tz.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve Dallas)
In-reply-to: stevedal@tz.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 25 Jul 91 20:00:38 GMT
Subject: My Rambling Regrets...
Reply-to: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu

[if you missed his posting, it included the indented paragraph]

   Well, when I expected to join this forum, I had hoped for a little more 
   than people reciting their favorite parts of the shows, and how they liked 
   some parts and hated others, like some cheap Leonard Maltin review.

So start a discussion on something that interests you.  Surely there's
some aspect of Twin Peaks that intrigues you as a film student that you'd like
other people's opinions on.  Remember, we've already talked about a
lot already, before you got here, while the show was still running.
Discussions tended to be triggered by specific images, plot
developments, etc. from the current episode, with speculation about
what was going to happen next. They took in a wide range of interests.
I'm sure that if you have something interesting to say about some
specific image, technique, storyline, etc. (that hasn't already been
discussed, or even if it has, we don't mind repeating ourselves if the
subject is interesting enough) there will be a response.  But you're
far more likely to get a discussion started if you either ask a
specific question or bring up an interesting idea than if you just show up
in a place where people have been talking for a while, and say "Here I
am, fascinate me."

Now your familiarity with the newsgroup rec.music.gaffa leads me to
believe that you must spend a fair amount of time looking around at
different groups and so time constraints are causing you to look for
an excuse to ignore this one.  If that's the case, don't blame this
group (or even patronize us.  I'm sure you're probably a nice person
too, if a little self-important).  Like any unmoderated open forum,
alt.tv.tp gets its share of traffic that is only of compelling
interest to a fraction of its readers but is kept going by that
fraction until it mutates into something else.  If reading through the
daily hundreds of postings to rec.arts.movies leaves you no time for
the twenty or thirty odd postings in alt.tv.tp, then that's your
decision.  Since you never gave an example of the contributions you
might be able to make to the group, I have no way of judging whether I
will miss them.

Barb Miller