Typekey<\/a> and use a nickname for that purpose. I can set groups up to be accessible by password so that they can be read only by those who are invited to participate. <\/p>\nIf there are enough interested for me to go ahead and set up one or more groups, I would open up more groups in the future if there were more people interested rather than subscribing more people to a group. My personal experience in a private group is that it works well at a small size. If there are a lot of people subscribed and only a few participate, then there is that sense of unease over who the lurkers are which only gets worse as the number of inactive participants increase. Plus it’s harder for a large number of people to have a discussion than it is for a small number.<\/p>\n
\nLet me know with an email if you are interested in being part of a group. Your email to me can be as simple as that you are
\ninterested in being part of a discussion group and would like to be
\ninvited if one is set up. You don’t need to tell me anything else about
\nyourself although you might specify whether you see yourself as an
\n"estranger" or an "estrangee". <\/p>\n
An estrangee is someone who has been
\nestranged unwillingly by someone else. An estranger is someone who has
\ndecided to do the estranging. I know that this is not always clear as
\nsometimes we may feel as though the other person has pushed us into the
\ndecision or that someone else may see us as having estranged them when
\nthey have done something unacceptable. But if you feel that you are
\nmore one way than another, let me know that along with your interest in discussing things.<\/p>\n
(Note added on November 5: I have heard from eight people so far who are interested in a discussion group.)<\/p>\n
Ginny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you would be interested in participating in a private online discussion group on estrangement, please email me at imajgin@yahoo.com. If I receive at least ten emails of interest in being invited to a discussion group by November 15, I will set up one or two private groups for discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[54,120],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblogs","tag-estrangement","tag-estrangements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}