"I have read on this site for a long time, but I used to only have AOL...I tried to sign up a couple of different times but couldn't because of the AOL address. Anyway, I am not sure of when I actually joined, but it was sometime this past summer, when Victoria Stafford was missing, but I am a member of another online sleuthing community, also. I live probably a million or more muffins away from Canada, but this was the only place I could actually find information other than what I found on the internet myself. But that's how I ended up here again, to finally join. So there may actually be a lot of people who just read and never post, but they feel like they belong because they have read everybody's posts for so long. That's how I felt, like I knew everybody."
Anothermom, I know just how you feel! I joined last fall after lurking here for about 5 years for the JBR case and only joined when there were CA docs posted in the Parking Lot that I was dying to read lol. It was a headache, because my bf has the only email addy allotted by our internet provider, and I had to actually pay $10.00 bucks for my own. But it was worth it.
It is true how you feel like you "know" people on here.
(Mew, we miss yew!)