Subj : Prayer and Praise echo
To   : Papabill
From : Bob Ackley
Date : Wed Mar 05 2008 05:06 am

Replying to a message of Papabill to Daryl Stout:

P> Re: Prayer and Praise echo

>> Michael...
>>
ML@>>>      Every now and then I come across message asking for prayer.
ML@>>> Jus wondering if there is enough interest to start a Prayer
ML@>>> request and praise echo on the NA backbone? If there is enough
ML@>>> interest I would willing to moderate and echolist such and echo.
ML@>>> At this point I am j polling to see if there is any interest for
ML@>>> such and echo. Any thoug or interest?
>>
>>   I know SpiffNet has one, and I wouldn't have a problem having it in
>> FIDOnet Those who want it could use it...and the others could ignore
>> it, as it were.

P> Problem is, some won't ignore it, they will just come on and post
P> filthy anti-Christian messages and foul up the entire thing. I have
P> gotten to hate reading some of the Christian echoes lately, they are
P> so full of garbage. I know everyone has the right to think what they
P> want, but why not use a little common courtesy and good judgement.

That hasn't been the case in Fido or on Usenet for decades.  As long as
people can and do hide behind a keyboard and display they can and do
say the most outrageous things one can imagine - things that they would
never say or admit to having said in a face-to-face discussion.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+
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