Signed, Paula, who just wait-upon a restaurant full of people who had just left a memorial service at the mega-church next door who had just listened to an address by Oliver North(and so feeling especially grateful). You should see his tour bus.(Military.com, Radio America, painted on the dark-brown outside) Long before these people(mostly young, lotsa rude, at first) showed up, his driver came in for a sandwich to go and mentioned that the Secret Service was on the bus. Gianna, the Italian shark told me to calm down when I wondered why tax dollars were paying to protect Oliver North. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:09 PM Subject: repent!
> [making the rounds - apologies if you've seen this before, and
> another thing to be sorrowful over...]
>
> LIST SERVE REPENTANCE
>
> For the sin we have committed in posting copyrighted material to the
listserv,
>
> and for the sin we have committed by forwarding virus warnings, NEA
> appeals, and dying child requests.
>
> For the sin we have committed in harshly judging other List members
> by their spelling or use of punctuation,
>
> and for the sin we have committed in posting a message without
> spellchecking it first.
>
> For the sin we have committed by raising our voice through the
> over-use of capital letters,
>
> and for the sin we have committed in lowercasing the pronoun "I" as
> an original and clever expression of language.
>
> For the sin we have committed in rushing to delete overly long
> messages and those with the name of a digest on the subject line,
>
> and for the sin we have committed in responding to the List by simply
> pressing the Reply key.
>
> For the sin we have committed in posting "unsubscribe" and other
> server commands to the List itself,
>
> and for the sin we have committed in enjoying what were obviously
> private messages sent to the List in error.
>
> For the sin we have committed in assuming that anyone with e-mail
> also has access to the Web, U.S. television, and the spiritual
> foundation with which we were raised,
>
> and for the sin we have committed in believing that our gentle digs
> and tongue-in-cheek comments could never be misinterpreted.
>
> For the sin we have committed in analyzing an innocent comment to death,
>
> and for the sin we have committed in failing to recognize that for
> some List members, rebutting one piece of a post is the best way to
> show that the whole message was taken seriously.
>
> For the sin we have committed in posting how everyone should take it
> easy and not be so sensitive,
>
> and for the sin we have committed in feeling personally insulted by
> another List member's inability to master netiquette and an
> undetermined portion of their real world lives.
>
> For the sin we have committed in trying to post attachments to the List,
>
> and for the sin we have committed in believing that our bonds with
> the List community were a replacement for neighborhood, volunteer,
> and other real world attachments.
>
> For the sin we have committed in feeling superior to List members
> whose self-revelations have actually taught us valuable lessons,
>
> and for the sin we have committed in forgetting that the archives are
> searchable, and that sharing confidential information about people
> who may someday seek it out is an act of honesty that could
> eventually harm the innocent.
>
> For the sin we have committed in fearing on-line disagreements as
> divisive and dangerous, forgetting that our community is truly
> multifaceted,
>
> and for the sin we have committed by not attempting to start a new
> thread if the List seemed to need a different direction.
>
> For these and other sins, some are guilty, all are responsible for
> the Send button.