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From: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.religion
Subject: Re: Proposal for net.religion subgroups (Christian mailing list)
Message-ID: <35@tove.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 21:15:10 EST
Article-I.D.: tove.35
Posted: Sat Nov  3 21:15:10 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Nov-84 22:37:51 EST
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Reply-To: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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Summary: 

As the moderator of the Christian mailing list, I thought I should
speak up and give you our statement of purpose:

	The purpose of the list is to provide a non-hostile
	environment for discussion among Christians; not to hide
	our discussion from non-Christians.  Non-believers may
	"listen in" by being hand-forwarded discussion from a member
	of the list.  Full blown debates between Christians and
	non-Christians are best carried out in the net.religion
	news group, and it is hoped that the availability of this
	list will not diminish the contribution Christians make
	there.

Our motivation is really not that much different from the motivation
behind the feminists' mailing list; we just want a forum in which
we can discuss our beliefs and how they effect our lives without
needing to defend our fundamental beliefs.  Now I'm not saying that
diversity on the net is bad; it isn't!  I enjoy being able to
participate on the net and am not (usually!) afraid to state what
I believe.  I'm just saying that there's a time and a place for
everything.

I think the reason this mailing list is being suggested as an
alternative to a net.religion.christian is related to the reason that
net.women.only is not being used any more (except for the "add me to
the list" messages).  The list is more like a family -- you can talk
about things like your personal life without fearing someone will
attack you for the place you're coming from.  I'm not really opposed
to a net.religion.christian; I just think it would be under-utilized.
Let me say, too, for the record, that, as the moderator of the group,
I am not going to allow messages to be posted that express hatred for
any person or group of persons.  (Not that I expect any.  I think the
people on the list know Jesus' love well enough that they'd not want
to post such messages.)


For any Christians out there who would like to join the list, send
mail to seismo!umcp-cs!mailjc-request and I'll add you.
-- 
				-Liz Allen

Univ of Maryland, College Park MD	
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Arpanet:  liz@maryland

"This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you:  God
 is light; in him there is no darkness at all" -- 1 John 1:5