These days I lead a grihasta life of refinement planning, and serving Soumya . The best outcome of this experience, apart from the self-aggrandizing joy of seeing your writings contributing their bit to the usenet noise, was the many good friends I made over the net.
Net friendships are quite interesting.
Here would be this person, whose stands on all sorts of issues like civil liberties, feminism etc. The exact opposite of the friendships forged in the normal ways. A problem with net.writing is that so much of it is so context-dependent that it does not exactly age well. My pet-topic used to be equality of sexes, particularly in the indian context. I once started a discussion on the practice of arranged marriages among expatriate indians with an article on 3-way ticket marriages .