From:    Robert Alan Harris <[log in to unmask]>:
 
>Why reinvent the wheel?
>I would suggest AmerCath@ukcc or
>[log in to unmask] (which will not be online until next week).  The first
>is an existing list which I am sure would be happy to entertain the
>subject you discuss and the second is a nascent list which would be
>excited about the possibility of starting out on such an substantive
>subject --
 
Thank you, Robert, for the suggestion, but I don't think it is, in fact, a
case of reinventing the wheel.  Both AmerCath and H-AmRel are devoted to
church history.  Though I may appear a fossil, I am practicing a religion
in the modern day.  A number of other subjects which would be off-topic on
either of these lists would be discussed on ours, ranging from sacramental
theology to modern and traditional liturgical expressions, and even sheerly
devotional materials.  It would bore the historians on either list you
suggested to tears.
 
I subscribe to both ANGLICAN and CATHOLIC (the latter actually being named
Free Catholic originally, but translated to simply Catholic on Bitnet).
Such discussions as we are now having through round robin e-mail exchanges
(frequently accidentally leaving someone out of the loop or reposting to
someone or otherwise just screwing up), would =in fact= be on-topic in
these forums, but would add to the traffic on two lists which are already
overwhelming in sheer volume.  CATHOLIC presents the additional problem
that most participants define the word as meaning loyal to Rome.  Not an
impatient person, I am tiring of having to address this issue over and
over.  The list I propose sets about from the onset the premise that there
exists valid expression of Catholicism outside of Roman ecclesial
jurisdiction, and provides a place to discuss it without having to defend
the basic premise with each post.
 
I have gone through the entire List of Lists (all 1.3 meg), and find no
forum which seems a good "fit."
 
So, given the foregoing, do you know of a system owner who might be willing
to accommodate us?
 
John-Mark +
 
 
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