Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.religion Subject: Re: Proposal for net.religion subgroups Message-ID: <1221@ihuxr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 15:52:06 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxr.1221 Posted: Mon Nov 5 15:52:06 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 05:22:25 EST References: <1619@ucf-cs.UUCP>, <967@houxm.UUCP> <1639@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 >From: yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid) >A christian mailing list is, in comparison with a net forum open at least to >public ears and monitoring (if not to their keyboards), a rather secretive >alternative. Such a secretive alternative as a SUBSTITUTE FOR a public forum >strikes me as something out of pre-WWII Germany and makes me, as a Jew, very >nervous. There are many christian mailing lists, jewish mailing lists, etc. >and that is to be expected.... but why is a christian mailing list suggested >AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO a forum open to public monitoring? [...] >Evil prefers the cloak of darkness and secrecy. Uprightness prefers the light. And where were you making such suggestions when the net.women.only mailing list was started? (Seems that the "men" wouldn't stay out of the conversations that the women wanted to have.) I wonder if those critical towards Christianity would be willing to stay on the sidelines if net.religion.Christian was started. I suspect not. -- ________ ( ) Don Stanwyck @( o o )@ 312-979-3062 ( || ) Cornet-367-3062 ( \__/ ) ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck (______) Bell Labs @ Naperville, IL