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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: itm!bob and In Touch Ministries
Message-ID: <344@pyuxn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 11:39:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  9 11:39:49 1983
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>	Some of you may not know that we have a Christian programming ministry
>	on USENET.  It is called "itm", which stands for "In Touch Ministries".
>	When the site originally entered our network, a man called itm!bob was
>	fairly active in quoting the Bible in a purposely insulting fashion at
>	us unbelievers but I haven't seen anything on this group from that site
>	recently.

I can vouch for the character of itm!bob.  Several months ago, he sent me a
particularly vitriolic letter, imploring me to change my ways or suffer the
wrath of his god ("tempered" by his Christian love).  I sent him a similar
letter, decrying his christocentrism and his obnoxious attitudes.  I should
have known better.  The path he gave me was hopelessly erroneous, and I got
a reply from a system coordinator at one of the machines along this useless
path, asking what this was all about.  The moral is:  when a Bible-thumper
ends his notes with "Comments are welcome.", take a good look at the path.

Did anyone else get similar notes from itm!bob.  The tone of the note smacked
of a mass mailing...				Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr