🚀 go-pugleaf

This is in reply to Joe Bayerl who said:

JB@FROM   :jbayerl@delphi.com
JB>@SUBJECT:Re: To moderate or not to moderate...
JB>Message-ID: <xQ6SB96.jbayerl@delphi.com>
JB>Newsgroups: bit.listserv.freemasonry
JB>Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)

JB><JBILLMA@ANDY.BGSU.EDU> writes:
JB>
JB>>attempting to address these wayward thinkers lest they convince
JB>the >net-public to take action against Masonry.
JB>>
JB>>I've said my piece; what are your thoughts?
JB>
JB>I am not sure that you can address the 'wayward thinkers' as a
JB>group.  There are some out there who will not understand free
JB>thinking regardless of the scale of your campaign.


I would not worry about anyone being able to get the net-public to
take action against Masonry.  They can shout "evil-doers" and point
their crooked little fingers this way all they want.  There are
newsgroups and listservs all over the net that actually are set up to
support and provide an electronic community for actual admitted
satanic groups.  There are groups for gnostics, Wiccans, Druids and
Athiests.  If they can't get groups that ACTUALLY DO WHAT THEY CLAIM
THEY DO kicked off the net, they will never get a group like Masonry
that does virtually NONE of what they accuse us of kicked off the
net.  The truth is, they couldn't even if we WERE evil.  Why?
Because Internet is not a commercial venture.  And in fact, no single
intity operates or manages the entire net.  It is a conglomeration of
a bazillion smaller systems with merely a common link.  Granted, it
was set up by the government as an experiment to see if they could
establish a reliable packet mail swapping system for themselves, but
then it got opened up to the world and now their are huge parts of
the system that have nothing to do with the government and could
never be shut down by them since the packets they send out into the
net do not all pass through a central spot in the net. They shoot all
over the place.  I remember finishing a book about the Internet
several months ago which described it's history and it's progression
up to this point.  It's fascinating when you consider what it was
originally intended to be and what it is now or even where it can and
likely will go in the future.

Sure, if you pissed off the Bitnet people they could shut us down as
a Bitnet group.  But then you just become an "Alt" or a "Soc" group
within a matter of weeks and you are back in the saddle.
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