Getting your first flames from someone well known can be very devasating. (So, most of the time GFY don't count)
I remember my first two. One with Ian and the first with Serge. After you get through that - nothing bothers ya much. But, that first is something you don't look forward to and try to avoid...... thus you have to have confidence to post a lot. Sometimes lurkers are intimadated because they don't realize that things are taken 'with a grain of salt on boards, that people don't particulatily believe everything they read, and many are different in real life than their board personna.
Really lurkers, it is not the end of the world to be flamed...... it is a part of maturing sometimes. If you have nothing to hide, then don't worry about it. Often good things come from it......
Actually I think Serge may have granted me franchise on "Ya snooze - ya lose"
