Phil,

Very well said.

I do not take what you said personally, and I am glad you love us, 
and I love all of you more than you will ever know.

Thanks Phil for saying what I was thinking. <smile>

Love,
Pat Ferguson
At 01:44 PM 8/26/2006, you wrote:
>      I have been thinking about making mention of this for some
>time so now is as good as any.  Don't be offended because nobody
>is being singled out, nor blamed, in any way, shape, or form.  So
>just stop thinking I'm talking about you personally right now
>because I am not.
>
>      I have been running mailing lists for 16 years.  I had about
>six mailing lists once upon a time and read hundreds of messages
>every day.  I have turned over all my mailing lists to other
>people, including echurch.  Vicki literally owns the list now and
>I am just a list moderator.  That allows me to send in list
>commands, put people on no mail, subscribe people asking to join,
>and stuff like that.
>
>      We only have about 35 people on this list.  Many are no mail.
>About a dozen of us post while everyone else just reads.  So, in
>short, for a dozen people, we often post a bunch of mail.
>
>      Forwarding messages is fine if we don't get carried away.
>Yes, we can use the delete key but for those of us who are blind
>and using screen readings, it takes extra time.
>
>      Additionally, something else people often don't realize is
>that you do not have to reply to every message that is posted.  If
>you do, and I do, and everybody else does, here comes 30 more
>messages saying, Thanks for posting that, or, great post.  Don't
>forget, you can always email the person off the list and tell them
>how you enjoyed what they said.  I post a lot of things I write.
>You can write me off line if you liked it or have a comment or a
>question.  See how easy it is and how that alone would scale back
>a mailing list.  What if we had 2,000 subscribers on here?  Think
>about it.
>
>      finally, there are some who leave echurch because they are
>members of many other lists and they think we have too much mail.
>That's why it is better, rather than posting articles and the
>like, to post where we can get them.  Clicking on a link posted in
>an email message is super easy when you want the information a
>person wants to share.  For example, when I mentioned Vicki's
>birthday, I probably should have suggested everybody write her off
>list but I didn't think of it.  Yes, it is ok to chat, sort of
>speak, on the list.  We all do it but sometimes we all do it too
>much and drive people away.
>
>      So, now that you are mad, I'm sorry and I still love you and
>I am not thinking of any one person regardless of what you might
>think.
>
>Phil.
>
>
>He's ready when you are.
>www.SafePlaceFellowship.com