Re: word help

Ed Chait wrote:

Well, I have to thank you, because I'm pretty sure it was you who mentioned that newsgroup here once, and it has been a incredibly valuable resource to me. 

It's one of my preferred hangouts on occasion as well.

I do get around a bit. I think it would be fascinating if we all posted a list of the newsgroups we all participate in and/or lurk at.

I vary what newsgroups I read. Textile ones, sometimes current events ones when there is a major world happening (it's amazing what people come up with primary source data to post there), read the royalty newsgroups briefly around some of the British royal family weddings out of curiosity, tax groups, home improvement groups, misc.consumers.frugal-living, cooking ones, browse through the ADD group on occasion, keep tabs on all the newsgroups my ISP offers for their subscribers, used to hang out on the ba.* hierarchy (San Francisco Bay Area newsgroups), used to read one AGES ago called something like alt.whitehouse.gov that was a discussion -- not argument -- of what was going on in the Executive branch of the government.

Before I did MT I proofread textbooks for a typesetting company, and I adored it because I got to learn so many interesting things (and there were only 2 textbooks in all those years that I thought were boring), didn't have to take tests, and got paid for it.
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