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From: davis@hplabs.UUCP (Jim Davis)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Dramatis Personae
Message-ID: <1613@hplabs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 04:36:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 15 04:36:48 1985
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JWD> . . .                 Send ~300 characters including
JWD> your name and I'll put them together and out iff (<=intended)
JWD> I get 10 or more such entries.  I do tend to get lost
JWD> in articles with descendants that stretch back great
JWD> numbers of submissions.

Ah well, I guess I set the limit too low.  I have received 2
responses so far.  The first used 730 characters in his
self-description and the second 1405.  I had hoped for short
descriptions; but that can't be done sight unseen.  I didn't
even see a "Dramatis Personae" list as being useful until
it had had a chance to "relax" (a technical term, meaning go
through all of the iterations caused by its own changes) so
here is the first rule change:  1500 chars will be allowed
in the self description.   Remember, so far this only matters
vis-a-vis this group, so no need to demonstrate Unix competence,
etc.  I regret doing this as I had envisioned entries like
mine (attached below) and not missives, but I have underestimated
how many characters it takes to say anything.

My thanks to the two who have replied so far.  With eight
more I'll have a monkey on my back.  Otherwise, I'll know
that it simply doesn't matter to anyone else.  Here's my
198 characters.

James W Davis: hplabs!davis: An interested onlooker:
	Member and Past Elder of United Presbyterian
	Church in America:  currently seeking and
	uncertain, but confident in faith and the love of God.
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	Jim Davis (James W Davis)
Email:	{any_of_the_biggies} !hplabs!davis
Arpa:	davis%hp-labs@csnet-relay
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