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 + Fr. John-Mark Gilhousen | Voice/Fax/TDD: 207-780-1438 OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NEW ENGLAND | (for fax, please call voice 1st) 218 Park Avenue, Ste. 13 | Portland, ME 04102 USA | E-Mail: [log in to unmask]