No, just no...

[trystinn]

Geez, another person emailing me wanting to join the PNO.

The subject lines always make me wince:
"Greetings Fellow Pagan"
"Looking for a true Coven"
"Searching for Witches"
"***Bright Blessings***"
"I need to know pagans are out there!"

Comments

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

You have to join? You can't just show up?

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

But I agree, the desperate subject lines get real old real fast.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Yep, btw, how's that reading coming along??

Nudge, nudge.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

slow. A certain small child would prefer I read to *her*.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Yowsa - my stuff ain't G-rated!

Carry on!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

They have to join the group to get the schedule, only way we can keep spammers and fundie off the list.

Err..its a yahoogroup. :)

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

oh. my bad.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Nope, its mine.

[magicalmehendi.livejournal.com]

is there really any quickie subject line that wouldn't make you wince?

5 words or less never seems to make a good impression, when it's this topic

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Good point. Hmn...how about "Looking for community on Whidbey"?

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

Quod est "PNO"? Stuprum enim magnum sum.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Pagan Night Out - I manage the yahoogroup and require a set of five insipid questions (i.e. can you attend one out of three meetings?, etc.) to keep the spammers and fundies out.

The group itself, I'm getting ready to dump on another member!

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

I will have to look in to that, then!

On the Ecclesia_Antinoi list, we had to institute a question for those joining and have moderated membership. In the time since we have instituted it, there was one person who tried to join who did not answer the question, so they were not approved. Otherwise, everyone has followed the rules!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Spammers and fundies (the occasional troll - but we rarely get them anymore) have been the bane of any list or forum.

I'm not happy with the five question format we require, but at least I have a concept of the person's occult background and interests so I can pair them up. And I'm very clear that the questionnaire's prime use is to deter spammers.

So far, its worked rather well, though the fluff-quotient in our area is rather high.

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

I have a story about fluffiness and Whidbey Island relating to John Matthews that I'll have to tell you sometime...

As far as fluff-factor goes, I had feared as much. Seattle is very good as far as various recon groups (or interested individuals) go, from what I've seen. Still, it is nice to have local people to at least contact that one knows are pagani of some stripe or other, isn't it? I had little enough in common with most pagans in Cork, but there was some comfort in knowing they were there at least.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd love to hear that one!

Coffee or tea it is - we'll work on a date and time, hopefully you know of a good cafe, etc. in Anacortes?

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Unfortunately, Anacortes isn't great for what is on offer cafe-wise. There's always Starschmucks; though the Donut House is not bad, if you have no objection to donuts, and the bonus there is they're open 24 hours!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I don't mind a donut now and again - just have to do it with planning.

<----diabetic Type II, non-insullin dependent

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

How about that? I'm Type I, HEAVILY insulin dependent and on an insulin pump, which means that I can add a bit of "extra" if necessary. I swear, I've met more diabetic pagans in recent history...

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Well, they spent two years telling me I had Lupus and had me on all sorts of steroids and methyltrexate before realizing they made a mistake.

Frankly, Diabetes is easier (at least the mild case I have)!

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

Yeah, back in the day (when I was 8) I used to be asthmatic only. However, they had me on lots of steroids, as well as more than double the adult dosage of an asthma drug called theophylin, which was clinically-proven to cause diabetes. And, with my family history of it, zowie-bang-boom, I ended up diabetic. Medical doctors can be such dickheads, I swear--and not the good kind!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

We used to have a saying in the Dianic community - "you ain't a witch if you don't have allergies!"

[alfrecht.livejournal.com]

"...or Irritable Bowel Syndrome," etc. etc. Yes, I can see how that is quite true!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Eh. They think they have to say the passwords or you won't think they're pagans. Mostly, they get over it. We all did.

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

Could be worse. The subject line could say, "I'm the reincarnation of Gerald Gardiner or Robert Cockrin."

Hey, if they can spell, that's a first step. Yes, I know how I mangled the above. *vbg*

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of us are looking for validation - and some of us are REALLY alone - but this still makes my teeth hurt the same way Twoo Mahstahs and Twoo Swaves do. (deliberately over-sillying a bad running joke from one of the other communities I occasionally relate to...)

So that's what you REALLY think of us...

[becomingdawn.livejournal.com]

Well, well, well...this comment was posted the day after I originally contacted you, so I can't help but wonder if I prompted this? Hmmm...but if I recall, I titled my email "Seeking". That's even before I knew "seeker" was some sort of official term out there, so give the newbie Pagan a break, OK? So tell me: was it MY email that prompted the post, or that of some other unfortunate soul? ;-)

Sheesh. Didn't know you BTWs could be so hard on people. I like it.

Re: So that's what you REALLY think of us...

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Nope, wasn't you. I get about three a week, the one you're thinking of was actually a couple (they've since come through the bookstore to meet me!)

Seeking was just the right answer :)