[Faith-talk] Purpose of This List

[Steve Jacobson]

Linda,

Please understand that my comments were not meant to be criticism, and that I do understand that you were gone for a time for very good reasons.  I was looking for 
a somewhat humorous way to express an opinion while making it clear that I am not the moderator and that you might not agree and that is all right.  

I think it is a good idea to think about the purpose of any of our lists from time to time, because it is easy for people to forget that they don't just happen.  it does cost 
us money to keep them going and volunteers, such as both you and I,  put in a lot of time moderating them and also keeping the system running as well.  There are 
also persons who enjoy disrupting a list and pick topics that they know will divide or anger.  We've seen this on others of our lists in the past.  I do not personally 
believe this is the case with Peter, but I do believe he feels that any limiting of what he posts is a violation of his right to free speech, and that just isn't the case.  As 
some here know, we just finished having a very difficult time with him on another list after which he turned to this one.  I also communicated with him privately to try 
to understand him better, but I don't feel I succeeded very well.  All of those difficulties may have made me more careless with my comments than I should have 
been regarding the list wandering.  Thank you for your work.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:24:15 -0500, Linda Mentink wrote:

>Hi all,

>Steve believes that I, as the moderator allow things he wouldn't. 
>Well, for one, thing, I was gone for a little over a week to 
>Wisconsin. The list is what the listers make it, and we have had some 
>good discussions. When questions are asked, we do our best to answer 
>them, mostly using the Bible as our guide. I don't know what else to 
>do. I try to search the Scriptures, and leave my opinion out of it. 
>If someone disagrees with the Scriptures, that's between them and 
>their God. I like to know about other religions, but I'm not 
>interested in converting; nor do I wish to cram my beliefs down 
>anyone's throat, or cast pearls before swine, as the Bible says.

>Regarding forwards, some of you like them, so I have said no more 
>about them. But it would be nice if all the headers were deleted. 
>This can be easily done by down arrowing to the bottom of the block 
>to be deleted, and pressing control-shift home, then enter.

>Sleep well.

>Blessings,

>Linda


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