So many of these teary-eyed farewell givers end up boomeranging, especially after so many of their very best internet buddies send them off blowing kisses and promising they're welcome back any time.

Have you ever, felt the responsible, of some1 leaving?

This guilt, I cannot live with , it.

Last edited by Lord Hillyer (2007-04-16 07:38:00)

that's what the PM system is for...it allows for multiple recipients. Instead of a long, teary good-bye with a bullhorn at a 10,000 member super pub.

I think there are many farewell posts which are overblown.

I think they're fine if understated.  leave the nonsense about how you'll miss everyone and how they're such gentlemen out. It's all bullshit, you've never met these people, they and you probably wouldn't like the other if you met.

My farewell post on AAAT was really only so the three or four posters (Harris, rojo, Intrepid, Brooks, fog, etc.) over their who had useful input, sources, or ideas could contact me in case I was retroactively banned as Horace was and thus could not be reached by PM, and also a last ditch effort to steer things on track with a reference to the thread that spawned the more fruitful trad/ivy discussion.

Some the responses to it I read later were a trifle cloying.  But that's how it is there.

I am on the internet less frequently anyway because of finals and the desire to get out more (and increasing numbers of events at this time of year wihich allow for it).

I just don't like to leave things at loose ends and if I should ever cease to post here I would leave the same psuedonym forward email address in case anyone had good ideas or questions that would help me or them. Neatness, finality.

Coolidge

These farewell posts are an attempt to control, on the internet, precisely those things that we can't always control in real life. It's the fantasy of listening to the speeches at one's own funeral.

There is a similar immortality analogy with the re-animation of long-dead threads.