Because newgroups, and LJ are sort of private. In the first, while anyone can wander in, they don't.
In LJ, you can decide who gets to see it.
In a newsgroup, you are using personal experience as illumination, it isn't the focus of the conversation, and as a response, you can just hack it out... no need to dither over turn of phrase, no sense that this what will first greet the reader.
So it is different.
What's the adage, "Distress doesn't mean something is wrong. Distress means something is changing,"?
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Date: 2004-07-23 10:44 am (UTC)In LJ, you can decide who gets to see it.
In a newsgroup, you are using personal experience as illumination, it isn't the focus of the conversation, and as a response, you can just hack it out... no need to dither over turn of phrase, no sense that this what will first greet the reader.
So it is different.
What's the adage, "Distress doesn't mean something is wrong. Distress means something is changing,"?
TK