Reply: P.S. andra Barton (The Spark, Issue 53, May-Aug 2008)

[Guest guest]

Thank you very much for such a positive response Lesley,

May I suggest that if you have the energy (and wish to do it) that you send

this crucial point to the letters page at The Spark mail@... No

editing is required, here. It is a great point to make.

What I always say, on all the groups to which I belong, is that it costs no

more energy to send your e-mail to the original source (in this case, The

Spark); if you don't the readers, there, won't know you made it, or even

that you and others think it; often you are simply preaching to the

converted, that is, M.E. sufferers will either wholly agree with you, wholly

disagree, or have some shades of grey and we don't move a step forward - but

no one out there is going to know, if we don't get it back to them, or the

strength of feeling (Why do you think they've got away with " Yuppie flu " for

so long?).

The other essential point is that, even if your letter, doesn't get chosen,

it increases the pile on the Letters Editor's desk, making it more likely

that at least one will get in. They especially like it if there is a

difference of opinion and you may get not only two letters but a follow-up

discussion.

Finally, whether they publish your letter or not, we always want it on our

site,

in LETTERS, here, so your work is never wasted and you will see it up

somewhere. However, as always, it has to be your choice.

Best wishes