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From: era@era.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: Church Flames
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Date: 10 Jan 90 04:45:20 GMT
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In article <9478@bunker.UUCP> moth@dartmouth.edu (Tom Leathrum) writes:
|But this is where I draw the line:
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|>From Ed Arnold * era@ncar.ucar.edu:
| EA> Seems to me this is what we have a moderator for.  Bill, how about
| EA> putting the kabosh on these types of postings?  All they do is raise
| EA> everyone's blood pressure and occupy net bandwidth that could be better
| EA> used for something else.  Does anyone need to be reminded of the fuzzy
| EA> thinking and bigotry out there in the big world?
|
|Someone's got to come to Bill's defense, so it might as well be me.  Bill's
|role in this group is not to screen out things which might generate flames --
|in fact, the flames are what keep the group interesting.  Bill's role is only
|to screen out the truly offensive stuff.
|	.
|	.
|	.
|unfair, and then feel good about having learned something.  I commend Bill not
|only for posting the original commment, but for having the patience to put up
|with the ensuing glut of flames -- including Ed Arnold's.

Let me emphasize that I was NOT flaming Bill McGarry.  In fact, anyone who
can moderate a group with this kind of volume without coming unglued, must
be a saint.  I hereby nominate Bill for Sainthood.

[Note from Bill McGarry: Ed, I did not take it as a flame and thanks
 for the nomination!]

My flamings were an expression of my own frustration with the posturings
of certain "religious" people about the causes of disability ... and the
fact that my temper has been rather short of late.

I'll try to stay away from that topic in the future.  And I hereby nominate
Tom Leathrum to be the Church Lady of misc.handicap.  Tom, please exercise
your comic ability to dispatch "JK" and his brethren in the way they ought
to be dispatched.  (Unfortunately, I don't have that ability.)
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Ed Arnold * era@ncar.ucar.edu * era@ncario [bitnet] * ...!ncar!era [uucp]