If a tree falls in the forest, etc. etc.
I guess it is true--you have to declare yourself to be a lurker and the act of doing that unlurks you.
Has Doug done any statistical analysis on the lurker to chatter (meaning those who chat, not chatter in the useless vocalization sense) ratio on this list? Then again, who gives a rat's ass.
D'oh I've done it again, I've unlurked.
Alan Jacobson