Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   JB>  Hi again gorgeous!   
      
      
             Who, me??  Shucks.  Anyway, welcome back.  We missed you....  :-)   
      
      
      
   JB>  Catch my words to Bailiff for a bit of an explanation   
   JB>  to my reticence?   
      
      
             Uh-huh.  You were playing with a new toy.  Some people, once they've   
   discovered the Internet, find it much more exciting than life in the slow lane   
   and/or decide they don't have time for both.  As Shiloh commented elsewhere, I   
   think there is room for both in our lives.  I use the Internet when Nora wants   
   further information about something we've just read about.  I use Fidonet when   
   I've got her settled down for the night & I want to chat with my friends.  :-)   
      
      
      
   JB>  Oh and, aren't the Godless as welcome as those of us   
   JB>  with... Um... "Spirit"?   
      
      
             Citing the rules of the echo:   
      
       No participants will be included or excluded on the basis of their   
       vital statistics, ethnic origin, religious beliefs, medical history,   
       and/or sexual preferences.   
      
      
             Or, in a word, yes.  We don't include or exclude anyone on the basis   
   of their religion or lack thereof.  That bit about proselytizing appears later   
   in the rules & was added because a Christian of the fundamentalist/evangelical   
   persuasion was overzealous in an attempt to convert the Unwashed Masses to her   
   way of thinking.  It wasn't her religion we objected to, but her determination   
   to force it on others.  Some folks regard atheism as a religion... some don't.   
   Either way, AFAIC, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander....  ;-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)