In Internet ancient days- When none of you were here<G> (*Save for Jen,MPJ,John Martinez ect.) I called the National Office to tell them Ranger net was at their disposal.. The National Commander and his staff had no idea what a Internet list serve was or what it could become, so I was referred over to Dr. Bob Braswell who headed a new emerging technology services branch of the Dept. of Foreign Missions, and had a listserve called "Mandate". Dr.Braswell was a guest speaker at the first cyberpowwow and blessed Rangernet real good. We conversed over E-mail for sometime and It cleared my mind as to the vision of what we could and could not accomplish on Rangernet. We were encouraged to converse but not make policy or speek beyond our authority. The Internet is a wonderfull gift and our fellowship a wonderfull frame work to speed change. *What we bring- is access and freedom of speech. --------------------------------------------------- Just because we can blast our words accross the Internet does not give us permission to offend or cross the lines drawn by polite-kind and thoughtfull conversation. MPJ posts from time to time a "Rino-hide rules" message to wise us to this fact. WE SHOULD READ IT! "Our" Freedom is not to be used to barge in to closed doors.... ..and we are to self-police our conversation. Getting along is one of the high order things we must *strive to do... We do that by expanding the conversation and welcomeing NEW VOICES! *Take one byte of advise from a long-time Rangernet dude.. Think before you send- ask yourself this question! "Blessing or Curse!" *If it is the former -Send! *If it is the latter- Delete! Thanks... -=A=- --
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