From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:35:56 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Candy Madigan" <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 9:57 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting

> Even us newbies who have only been using the internet since the early
'90's
> and have been in WSFA since '84, might occasionally have something worth
> saying.
>
> What is this thing about assuming that someone who is new is less good
than
> someone who is old?  I can think of several oldbies that frankly, I
> consider what they have to say to be just so much noise.  And several
much
> more newer people who I consider to be worth listening to.  "The
antiquity
> of an abuse is no advocate for it's continuance."  Well, that concept
> applies to assuming that just because someone is new to a group means
they
> aren't as valuable to the group as someone who has been there a long time
also.

As the one of the oldest "oldbies," allow me to point out that "it's" means
"it is" and nothing else.  The possessive of "it" is "its."

--Ted White