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MS Speaks going into its 9th year
By: agate Date: June 8, 2014, 12:49 am
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A little over 8 years ago, MS Speaks began. It has evolved from
an active message board into something more like a blog.
Whatever it is, it's still here, and not everything on the
Internet lasts this long.
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Why this place is still here
By: agate Date: September 21, 2014, 1:39 pm
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Maybe it's time to ask why I keep this place going.
Why post material that people are perfectly capable of searching
out for themselves?
Well, for one thing, I've had considerable experience sifting
through the MS material by now. I just might know where to look
sometimes when others don't.
Also, I've had MS for 34 years now and might have a few notions
about how to deal with it.
And I'd like to think that by keeping up with several MS message
boards I'm getting an idea of the kinds of information people
are looking for.
Maybe my function is to be a shortcut for people who don't want
to do an extensive search on a topic. They can come here and use
the search function (see the window at the top right of the
page--it works pretty well), or they can look over the topics
and save themselves the time and energy it would take to search
the entire Internet.
Some of us are addicted to the belief that we ought to be making
ourselves useful. This board is one way I have of feeling
useful. Those page views here tell me that some people are
visiting here and reading.
I realize that many people find MS too depressing to want to
read much about, and so this board is never going to be a very
entertaining or lively place.
But I'll keep the information coming, FWIW. At least I'm not
sending e-mails to everyone every time something appears on this
board.
I know of several people who think that the material they're
finding about MS is so valuable that of course you'll want it
flowing into your e-mail inbox immediately.
I'm not that sure that what I'm posting deserves to be flooding
e-mail boxes, and I know what it's like to be getting more
e-mail than you know what to do with. So I don't do that. If you
post in a thread here, you can request e-mail notification if
there are replies in that thread, however.
Though I'm no scientist, I've dealt with scientific material in
my work--translating mathematics and sometimes medical material.
I don't claim to understand the more technical abstracts and
articles. But when I think they might be of interest, I put them
here.
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