Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: TITLE: I'm leaving for a (short?) while
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:44:00 +0000

Well, I've been in soc.bi for a while and I think it's time to 
gracefully bow out for an extended leave -- I still have my 
cliveg@cix.co.uk account if anyone wants to contact me and indeed I 
may be back in the near future, but I've been downloading masses of 
news messages every day for the past three months and just not 
reading them. So I guess it's time to have a breather.

Thanks to all the people I've met via this group but I feel it's 
really time to move on for two reasons:

1: I get frustrated at the what seems like the same old questions 
being asked -- this is an important service and I'm not attacking 
soc.bi, it answers many questions asked by old hands and newbies 
alike and I want to see this service continue and I will continue to 
publicize and support it wherever possible -- but for a while now it 
seems to me to have just gone around in circles... perhaps this is 
the limitations of a Usenet newsgroup -- perhaps it's *my* 
limitations as a reader. I dunno. I've got lots of other things to 
do. I will rejoin when I've had a break.

2: (more importantly) I get frustrated at the *amount* of stuff here 
I'm just not interested in. I now have to pay for online time and 
download time. More importantly I feel that the signal-to-noise ratio 
is too high (note this is a personal feeling).

I've decided to start the ball rolling about officially changing my 
name. I'm also "out" as abused and will continue to write about 
Bisexual issues regarding sexual abuse, I will still make a noise and 
kick up seven kinds of hell when I think survivors (especially 
bisexual ones) are being marginalized and I will still shout about 
all those issues and be a pest even in soc.bi -- so if people start 
writing about "sexual abuse" then a wee message *should* tell me and 
I'll be leaping into the fray. Pests R Us. :) :) :) :) (Hmmmm, I say 
"should" because this *is* UNIX we're talking about here).

It's been fun. I don't suppose my life as a rabid and "out" Bisexual 
will end as I've got friends in Bristol, Cambridge and many, many 
friends in Edinburgh where I hope to eventually live -- and I'll 
continue to be part of the Edinburgh Bi scene -- as soon as I get my 
life as a freelance writer up to speed and my book out of the door ( 
to those of you who know about the book -- yes it's still "getting 
there"). Keep in contact via E-mail if you want to... and I'll see 
you at all the best parties [hint].

"I'll be back."

Clive Grace

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