Re: A recommendation to the list.

From: Jonathan Clarke (jdac@alphalink.com.au)
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 18:20:57 EDT

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    Unless something is done this board will indeed go the way of the evolution
    list. This would be a great pity, as this ASA discussion has been the
    preeminent science and faith discussion. At the moment there is nothing being
    discussed of interest to me and I am deleting almost all the posts. Some
    strong action from the moderator is requested. I came back from three weeks
    away and had some 300 emails waiting, nearly all from ASA, and almost all not
    worth reading. I very nearly pulled the plug there and then.

    Jon

    Glenn Morton wrote:

    > To Terry and the list:
    >
    > I strongly recommend to the solution I suggested a yesterday. This sort of
    > silliness is ruining the list.
    >
    > glenn
    >
    > see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
    > for lots of creation/evolution information
    > anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
    > personal stories of struggle
    >
    > >-----Original Message-----
    > >From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
    > >Behalf Of Jim Eisele
    > >Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 8:01 AM
    > >To: shuanr@boo.net
    > >Cc: asa@calvin.edu
    > >Subject: Who is this guy? (was RE: Scholasticism...ENOUGH!!!!!)
    > >
    > >
    > >Dear List,
    > >
    > >Shuan, according to my membership, you are not an ASA member. I am.
    > >Are you a Christian? Would you consider yourself to be born again?
    > >
    > >>I understand the frustration.
    > >
    > >I don't find you very understanding at all.
    > >
    > >>My solution:learn your email program's filter tool!
    > >
    > >You can filter me. Truth triumphs, however.
    > >
    > >>I tell you from personal experience, it really works.
    > >
    > >Perhaps it lets you believe what you want to believe. Whether that is
    > >"working" is another matter altogether.
    > >
    > >>You can make it so all emails by a particular poster go straight to your
    > >>trash folder.
    > >
    > >I really hope that you're not a Christian.
    > >
    > >>You can also filter by content-automatically deleting all emails
    > >containing
    > >a
    > >>phrase like "otherbiblecode",
    > >
    > >I find this rude and insulting. I think that you owe Vernon an apology.
    > >
    > >>"yom",
    > >
    > >This is insulting to all Christians who hold to (or at least respect)
    > >the day-age interpretation of Gen 1. You owe all of them an apology.
    > >
    > >>or "Eisele".
    > >
    > >This is childish. You're not a big enough man to apologize.
    > >
    > >>If you think you have missed anything important, just check your trash
    > >folder.
    > >
    > >Please take these garbage sentences elsewhere.
    > >
    > >>Make technology work for you.
    > >
    > >Technology apparently encourages rudeness.
    > >
    > >>I really hope that the good posters on the list aren't driven out vy the
    > >bad.
    > >
    > >Whose definition?
    > >
    > >>Don't let them win, guys!
    > >
    > >You're not a Christian, are you?
    > >
    > >Jim
    > >
    > >

    --
    "It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long
    survive when men have seen the earth as a pale crescent dwindling against the
    stars, until at last they look for it in vain".
    

    Arthur C. Clarke



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