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BBS-FYI 2:8
May 3, 1994
NET NEWS
"Use E-Mail Gateways to BT, Swiss PTT -- New messaging gateways to British
Telecommunications Messaging Services and Unisource Business Networks
(Switzerland) are now available, allowing CompuServe members to reach more
individual mailboxes and corporate e-mail systems than ever before.
Combined with CompuServe connections to the Internet, AT&T, Sprint, MCI,
NiftyServe, Advantis, Infonet and Germany's Deutsche Bundespost, these new
connections give CompuServe users extensive worldwide reach." From a
CompuServe announcement dated Apr 28 '94.
And then there is:
"Fishermen, hunters, campers, boaters and other outdoor enthusiasts now
can access the premiere issue of Outdoor Bytes, the Interactive Electronic
Journal of Fishing and Hunting, in the Outdoors Forum's Library 16. At
132 pages, Outdoor Bytes may be the first full-feature outdoors magazine
available for reading and viewing solely by computer. The 132-page
magazine, which will be published bimonthly, contains articles and
pictures from top U.S. writers and photographers. Editor-in-Chief Glen
Sapir is a former editor of Field & Stream magazine and president-elect of
the Outdoor Writers Association of America."
Also from a CompuServe announcement dated Apr 28 '94.
I SPY
Here's the results of my first look at the Christian Interactive Network
on CompuServe, and I'm far from impressed at this point. This is a list
of the organizations involved:
1 Amer Family Assoc
2 Life Issues Inst
3 CFTVC & Movieguide
4 Ravi Zacharias Min
5 Chr Computing Mag
6 NNYM Bible Clubs
7 Bible Reference
8 Coral Ridge Min
9 Logos Research
10 Campus Crusade Chr
12 WLTW Straight Talk
13 A.R.P. Online
14 Trinity On-Line
If you have a hard time figuring out what some of these items are, don't
feel bad. So did I. Trouble was, nor could I find out what they were
just by snoop'n around. I didn't take the time to ask. It seemed to me
that either bulletin board messages were not being allowed to sit very
long before being swept away to conserve system space -- or -- there
wasn't much activity. Either way, it was difficult to get history on
current happenings.
It was interesting to note that the fLamous online oneness pentecostal,
Steve Winter (originator of the PRIME BBS network), had already stirred up
enough grief within the CIN community that an entire topic area in the
message base had been devoted to encouraging the membership to disregard
Winter and his hostility.
I did drop in and check out the "Ravi Zacharias Min" section of the
message base. There wasn't any history to be found regarding what Ravi is
doing on CIN either. I'd say CompuServe needs to learn from GEnie here.
After that I checked out the "Ravi Zacharias Min" file library. Here is
the entire list of files I found:
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GENINF.TXT/Text Bytes: 602
Count: 50, 31-Mar-94
Title : JUST THINKING - INFORMATION
Keywords: RZIM JUST THINKING
View on line (Select VIEW), or retrieve, for information on Ravi
Zacharias International Ministries or the JUST THINKING publication.
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WACS.TXT/Text Bytes: 7773
Count: 23, 23-Mar-94
Title : Why Aren't Circles Squares?
Keywords: LOGIC RELIGION THEOLOGY GOD RAVI PHILOSOPHY
Article by Peter Bocchino, from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking,
Spring/Summer 1993. What's wrong with this picture?... A logical study of
the popular but erroneous view of associating Christianity with religious
fanaticism.
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TOOLS.TXT/Text Bytes: 1915
Count: 37, 23-Mar-94
Title : Teaching Tools by Ravi Zacharias
Keywords: CASSETTE VIDEO TOOLS
A collection of educational resources available for purchase from RZIM.
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TLSS.TXT/Text Bytes: 3661
Count: 26, 23-Mar-94
Title : The Logic of Sesame Street
Keywords: RELIGION PHILOSOPHY GOD THEOLOGY RAVI
Article by Peter Bocchino, from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking,
Fall 1992. The only consistent course for a skeptic, who denies the
law of non-contradiction, is to remain silent.
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[72662,2740]
R-E.TXT/Text Bytes: 10509
Count: 7, 23-Mar-94
Title : Reflections on Elections
Keywords: FREEDOM RELIGION THEOLOGY GOD RAVI
Article by Ravi Zacharias, from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking,
Winter 1993. "So handcuffed by momentary gratification and the tunnel
vision of the so-called Right or Left, we have forgotten there is an Up
and a Down. Without understanding the responsibilities of freedom, we lay
claim to it as an absolute." -RZ
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PRNC.TXT/Text Bytes: 5018
Count: 6, 23-Mar-94
Title : Political Rhetoric and the National Conscience
Keywords: THEOLOGY RELIGION GOD RAVI PHILOSOPHY
Article by Ravi Zacharias, from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking,
Fall 1992. "It is not so much that there are many words with no ideas, but
that there is a radical distorting of ideas with the same words."
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LALF.TXT/Text Bytes: 3392
Count: 19, 23-Mar-94
Title : Logic and Logical Fallacies
Keywords: BIBLE THEOLOGY PHILOSOPHY LOGIC
Article by Peter Boccino, from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking, Spring
1992. "When we critisize incorrect thinking, we imply the value of
correct thinking. Incorrect thinkng leads to faulty conclusions - and
ultimately to an invalid world view."
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INDIA.TXT/Text Bytes: 3432
Count: 4, 23-Mar-94
Title : Update: India
Keywords: INDIA EVANGELISM RAVI GOD
Article by Jeff Cranston, from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking, Spring
1992. In January 1992, the Ministry Team of RZIMspent 13 days in Madras,
Hyderabad, and Delhi. They conducted evangelistic campaigns and leadership
training.
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HSOT.TXT/Text Bytes: 10326
Count: 11, 23-Mar-94 Title : The Hide and Seek of Truth Keywords:
RELIGION PHILOSOPHY THEOLOGY GOD RAVI TRUTH Article by Ravi Zacharias,
from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking, Spring/Summer 1993. "The lie most
rampant in our sophisticated academic halls and in bastions of power is
that people who live duplicitous lives are somehow interested in the
truth."
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EVAN.TXT/Text Bytes: 5086
Count: 11, 23-Mar-94
Title : Who Owns Evangelicalism?
Keywords: EVANGELISM DAVID WELLS PLACE TRUTH THEOLOGY
A book review by Danielle DuRant, from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking,
Winter 1993. David Wells' book No Place for Truth, or, Whatever Happened
to Evangelical Theology.
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DY-ART.TXT/Text Bytes: 5317
Count: 19, 23-Mar-94
Title : The Dying Art of Thinking
Keywords: PHILOSOPHY THEOLOGY GOD RAVI THINKING BIBLE
Article by Ravi Zacharias, from RZIM's publication Just Thinking, Spring
1992 "The church... must challenge the mind of this generation, else we
betray our trust."
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BAON.TXT/Text Bytes: 3854
Count: 8, 23-Mar-94
Title : The Better Angels of Our Nature
Keywords: BENNETT WILLIAM DEVALUING AMERICA
Book review by Danielle DuRant, from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking,
Fall 1992. William Bennett's The Devaluing of America:The Flight of Our
Culture and Our Children
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AVFH.TXT/Text Bytes: 3389
Count: 8, 23-Mar-94
Title : A View from the Hammock
Keywords: RELIGION HILLARY CLINTON VALUES
Article by Danielle DuRant, from RZIM's publication, Just Thinking,
Spring/Summer 1993. Reaction to a recent speech by Hillary Clinton,
relating to values and religion in the public square.
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ABE.TXT/Text Bytes: 8310
Count: 17, 23-Mar-94
Title : Abraham Lincoln's Text
Keywords: LINCOLN THEOLOGY HISTORY CHRISTIANITY BOREHAM
Here is an editted version of one of F.W. Boreham's fine essays from his
book, A Temple of Topaz, on the great Abe Lincoln.
From RZIM's publication, Just Thinking, Winter 1993
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TWTOC.TXT/Text Bytes: 9158
Count: 16, 18-Mar-94
Title : THEY WANT THEIR OWN CANON
Keywords: CANNON MEDIA ALLEGRO FANTASY THOMAS SHOCKING
An article by Ravi Zacharias -THEY WANT THEIR OWN CANON, "There are many
responses Christian apologists could make to these bizarre theories
because they really are not that difficult to deal with - media hype
notwithstanding." JUST THINKING - Winter 1994 JUST THINKING is a
publication of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Inc. (RZIM). RZIM
is a Bible-based ministry with a main focus toward worldwide evangelism
undergirded by apologetics, reaching the thinker and opinion makers of the
world.
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VR.TXT/Text Bytes: 4481
Count: 9, 17-Mar-94
Title : VIRTUAL REALITY: WORLD OF MAN'S CREATION
Keywords: VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY SIMULATE COMPUTER
An article by Kevin Cattell. VIRTUAL REALITY: WORLD OF MAN'S CREATION-
"Even the shocking has a way of becoming monotonous and the 'scholarly'
ridiculous." JUST THINKING - Winter 1994 JUST THINKING is a publication
of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Inc. (RZIM). Please address all
correspondence to: RZIM 4725 Peachtree Corners Circle, Suite 250 Norcross,
GA 300
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ROTP.TXT/Text Bytes: 4211
Count: 6, 17-Mar-94
Title : REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST AND PRESENT
Keywords: PAST PRESENT IMAGES MINDFUL DEUTERNONOMY REDEMPTIVE
REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST AND PRESENT, an article from the Fall 1993
issue of JUST THINKING, by Danielle DuRant.
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IAIYM.TXT/Text Bytes: 6851
Count: 12, 17-Mar-94
Title : IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND
Keywords: MIND LOGIC IDEAS PSYCHOLOGICAL FALSE FEAR PSYCHOGENETIC GENETIC
HOOVER GOD
An article by Peter Bocchino, -IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND. "It is incorrect to
think that just because the origin of an idea came from a biased mind, it
must necessarily be a false idea." JUST THINKING -Fall 1993
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HDGT.TXT/Text Bytes: 6355
Count: 7, 17-Mar-94
Title : HOW DOES GREEN TASTE?
Keywords: JUST THINKIG GREEN
An article by Peter Bocchino, "For God to make a rock so big He cannot
lift it, the rock would have to be infinitely big.
But anything that is created is by definition a finite thing." From JUST
THINKING -Fall 1993
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BACR.TXT/Text Bytes: 8856
Count: 21, 17-Mar-94
Title : BIBLICAL AUTHORITY AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Keywords: TRUTH RELATIVISM AUTHORITY MINDSET WORD CULTURAL
An article by Ravi Zacharias -BIBLICAL AUTHORITY AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
"...biblical truth, transcultural as it is, has an indispensable message
for modern man..."
BBS-FYI 2:9
May 19, 1994
NET NEWS
"The year of the Christian Online Service" -- mostly plugs this magazine's
involvement with the Christian Interactive Network (CIN, which is supposed
to be pronounced "kin" says a systype there) on CompuServe. It also
reports that Didax is now redoing their beta test prior to opening their
doors, maybe in August. An ad for Didax on page 47 says their front end
will be Lotus Notes. Too bad, the May 9th InfoWorld reported that Lotus
will no longer support the Macintosh, period. Lotus never did make a
strong showing on the Mac side. A mysterious third Christian commercial
system "will open up this Fall on another major online service" (p5c.8),
probably referring to the Christianity Today Inc. effort. Nothing has
been announced officially by CTi yet. Christian Computing, May '94, p22.
TELESTATS
"One of every four calls handled by U.S. phone lines today carries a
facsimile, or 'fax,' transmission rather than a voice." Consumer Reports,
Sep '93, n.p.
LISTSERVE NEWS
For what it's worth, the NuRel list recently had a focus on witchcraft in
a general, introductory sense and at about the same time the Jesus'
Witnesses list was centered on the Watchtower and its hate teachings.
UPLOADS
Here's news directly from Jerry White who heads up the Religion & Ethics
forum of America Online. He reports:
The Forum has expanded again to better serve it's members. We now have
16 religion boards with over 50,00 messages. Three of these are dedicated
"Christian" (broadly defined) message areas named Christian Fellowship,
Christian Doctrine/Theology and Christian Living.
There are 15 libraries including Homiletics, Religious Applications,
Religious Publications and two that are Christian. Some of the more
popular downloads are:
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Atheism Library
Subj: The 3 Big Questions
File: 3BIGQUES
(31517 bytes)
Download count: 19 AUTHOR: T. Cogito
The WritersCoOp is a group of writers who have a wide range of beliefs
and literary tastes. But we all believe that everyone has a right to his
or her opinion. That's why we would like to present this controversial
work.
This is the first four chapters of a philosophical novel that is so
irreverently questioning that it is definitely not for everyone. It is
called "The 3 BIG QUESTIONS: Who Is God? Who Are We? and Is It Over When
It's Over?" A somewhat serious, sort of irreverent look at life's most
important questions, for those who care enough to wonder "but not enough
to take it all too seriously!!!"
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Christianity Libraries
Subj: Early Church History
File: HISTORY.ZIP
(66058 bytes)
Download count: 375
AUTHOR: Roddy Chestnut
Detailed outline of early church history. Covers the first six
centuries--Christ to Gregory the Great. Compiled from a class taught by
Dr. James North at Cincinnati Bible Seminary.
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Subj: Dead Sea Scrolls prove Mormonism
File: DEAD.TXT
(10610 bytes)
Download count: 414
AUTHOR: Computers for Christ
This text file describes the way in which the well known Mormon lecturer,
Einar C. Erickson has been telling the LDS church and its followers how
the Dead Sea Scrolls prove the LDS church to be true. It points out his
lies and severe flaws in changing and portraying the truth. If your one
of those who "heard" how the LDS church was proven with the finding of the
Dead Sea Scrolls...
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Subj: CBL Journal April 1994. MAC
File: OTHEO.sit
(84894 bytes)
Download count: 11
AUTHOR: CBL Staff
Note - This is the issue file only. You will need to download REPLICA
(the magazine reader program) to view this file. TO GET REPLICA Keyword:
"QUICKFIND" and type "REPLICA" Download file REPMAC.SEA
The Center for Biblical Literacy is offering its new journal, O
Theophilus, in an electronic version in the Ethics and Religion Forum's
Publications Library.* The journal is an analysis of cultural trends in
art and literature, contemporary philosophy, and world views. The purpose
of O Theophilus is to help Christians understand the cultural forces at
work in the world around them. We hope to help people think critically
about Western Culture, to recognize those elements of our culture which
are worthy of redemption and perpetuation, and also to see those elements
of our culture which undermine and oppose the knowledge of God. Sometimes
those philosophies and ideas which oppose Christianity are so subtle, we
do not even recognize that we are in battle with our culture. Without
realizing it, we have adopted values and methods that are truly American
but which are totally unbiblical. The Center for Biblical Literacy was
created to impart not only a biblical literacy but cultural understanding.
JPUSA BBS BYTES
Two BBS lists from Eric Pement:
CounterCult Bulletin Board Systems The aim of CCBBSnnn.LST is to list
BBS's with a special focus on cults or Christian apologetics. "nnn" is an
incrementing version number this list will be updated periodically. A
printed version of this listing appears annually in the Directory of Cult
Research Organizations, by Keith E. Tolbert and Eric Pement, published by
the American Religions Center (PO Box 168, Trenton, MI 48183). The
electronic text always supersedes the printed version.
The latest edition of CCBBSnnn.LST is available from Jesus People USA
BBS (Chicago), 312-878-6030, USR Dual Standard HST/V.32, 9600+ baud. New
callers receive immediate download access. Goto <F>iles, <B>BS lists.
Jesus People USA is a Christian Bulletin Board System, presenting Jesus
Christ as the only answer to the fundamental needs of humankind.
This compilation is copyright 1994 by Eric Pement to protect the
integrity of data. This file may be freely copied and distributed without
charge or permission from the author, provided that it is not edited,
altered, or textually changed.
BBS names are sorted by area code and phone number.
Phone No. <--> BBS Name <--> City, St/Prov. <--> Sysop's Name
205-808-0736 Chr. Apologetics Board ??, AL Jeff Brumlow
206-784-7508 Chr. Research BBS (8:7000/14) Seattle, WA Will Hansen
301-949-7769 Truth Seekers BBS (8:3105/35) Rockville, MD
303-289-6864 Midrash MJCN (8:7000/0) Denver, CO Daniel Segard
312-878-6030 Jesus People USA (8:7000/43) Chicago, IL Eric Pement
313-535-0842 A Call for Papers (8:7000/50) Redford, MI Scott Wilson
404-978-6417 IXTHUS BBS Lawrenceville, GA
407-582-1972 Creation BBS W. Palm Beach, FL Jim Johnston
414-768-8902 SON BBS--Milwaukee (FBBS) Oak Creek, WI Dave Brown
512-452-6350 Counter Cult Consultants Round Rock, TX Jim Toungate
602-889-8796 The Christian Connection Tucson, AZ
602-973-3739 Pros Apologian (8:7707/5) Phoenix, AZ James White
602-981-2099 Standing Word BBS (8:7007/1) Chandler, AZ Paul Thomas
604-642-3184 Christian BBS Victoria, BC Dave G.
609-586-4847 Freedom Infonet BBS Mercersville, NJ Peter Skorupsky
615-745-7110 Last Days BBS (8:3115/10) Athens, TN
619-487-7746 Abba II San Diego, CA Anton Hein
707-252-4830 Corpus Christi (1:161/520) Amer. Canyon, CA Gary Bradford
708-362-7875 CFC #11 (8:7000/11) Vernon Hills,IL Doug Moore
708-390-6942 SON BBS--Chicago (FBBS) Des Plaines, IL Bill Bennett
714-971-1564 Chr. Central (8:7007/10) Garden Grove, CA Jeff Reese
708-934-1649 Gospel Outreach BBS Palatine, IL Don Schlesak
810-391-4142 C. Cumbey's New Age Monitor Lake Orion, MI Constance
Cumbey
916-742-4828 The Flaming Sword (FBBS) Grass Valley, CA Ron Knudson
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Abbreviations Used:
CFC Computers For Christ
Chr. Christian
FBBS Fundamental Bible Believers System (custom software & nework)
MJCN Messianic Jewish Computer Network SON Salvation Online Network
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Numbers in parentheses indicate FamilyNet (zone 8) or FidoNet (zone
1) netmail addresses, in the form of "zone:net/node".
There are many BBS's with multiple addresses: a FidoNet address, plus
two or more FamilyNet addresses. Space prohibits us from listing more
than 1 address, and since this listing will primarily circulate among
Christians, priority was given to FamilyNet addresses first.
The accuracy of CCBBSnnn.LST depends on input from =YOU=, the reader.
Please forward all corrections, updates, or necessary deletions to: Eric
Pement -- Internet: <eric@jpusa1.chi.il.us>, FamilyNet at 8:7000/43
FidoNet/FamilyNet Zone Gateway is accessed via 1:115/887.
Alternative Religious Bulletin Boards
ALTREL01.LST - First release * May 7, 1994
I would appreciate it if anyone would be willing to verify phone
numbers, give me new ones (especially LDS ones), and generally add to this
file. But please do not release or post this information publicly on any
[non-Christian] BBS because it is not my intention to aid non-Christians
in networking with other unbelievers.
The aim of ALTRELnn.LST is to list religiously oriented BBS's which
are _not_ included in the standard Christian BBS list (JESUSBBS.nnn) nor
in the standard Occult BBS list (OCCULTnn.LST). "nnn" is an incrementing
version number this list will be updated periodically. This file lists
BBS's run by non-Christian religions which were left out of OCCULTnn.LST.
Thus, the union of JESUSBBS.nnn -- OCCULTnn.LST -- ALTRELnn.LST forms
the set of all religiously oriented BBS's known to the compilers.
The latest edition of ALTRELnn.LST is available from Jesus People USA
BBS (Chicago), 312-878-6030, USR Dual Std HST/V.32. IT IS AVALIABLE ONLY
BY REQUEST FROM THE SYSOP. Jesus People USA is a Christian BBS presenting
Jesus Christ as the only answer to the fundamental needs of humankind.
BBS names are topically arranged and sorted by area code.
Phone no. <--> BBS name <--> City, ST/Prov. <--> month added
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BAHA'I FAITH
708-869-0389 Baha'i National Center Wilmette, IL 3/94
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IDENTITY (Anglo-Saxon, White/Aryan supremist)
312-275-6362 Cyberspace Minutemen Chicago, IL 3/94
412-775-6205 Transponder BBS PA 3/94
503-232-6566 Banished BBS OR 3/94
503-292-3305 Gay Agenda Resistance OR 3/94
503-590-0949 A.R.I.E.S. (pwd: "sturm") OR 3/94
916-944-8733 W.A.R. BBS Northern CA 3/94
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ISLAMIC
202-789-2527 AMnet Washington, D.C. 3/94
212-679-0813 Islamic LifeStyles New York, NY 3/94
301-656-4714 Imad-ad-Dean MD 3/94
312-274-8136 National Islamic BBS {115/nnn} Chicago, IL 3/94
713-597-8888 Mumeen Connection Houston, TX 3/94
714-638-0876 Thinknet BBS Garden Grove, CA 3/94
912-929-1073 Islam On-Line BBS [node 1] Warner Robins, GA 3/94
912-929-2873 Islam On-Line BBS [node 2] Warner Robins, GA 3/94
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
410-367-8659 Jehovah's Witnesses BBS Baltimore, MD 3/94
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KRISHNA
312-743-7741 Krishna Yoga Foundation Chicago, IL 3/94
312-743-6116 Krishna Yoga Foundation {800} Chicago, IL 3/94
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RLDS (Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
404-928-1579 RLDS-BBS GA 3/94
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UNIFICATION CHURCH (Moonies)
415-968-7481 HSA-UWC BBS San Francisco, CA 3/94
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URANTIA BOOK
319-263-6790 Brotherhood of Man Library IA 3/94
818-904-1656 Compendium of Wisdom Southern CA 3/94
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The accuracy of ALTRELnn.LST depends on input from =YOU=, the reader.
Please forward all corrections, updates, or necessary deletions to:
Eric Pement -- Internet: <eric@jpusa1.chi.il.us>, FamilyNet at 8:7000/43
FidoNet/FamilyNet Zone Gateway is accessed via 1:115/887.
BBS-FYI 2:10
June 9, 1994
NET NEWS
Probe Ministries is now on-line in the Ministry Outreach Forum of the
Christian Interactive Network within CompuServe. Here's a list of some of
the files in Probe's CIN library that I've snagged already (this was
approximately half of the total available at the time).
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ABORT.TXT, 24K, Abortion
AIDS.TXT, 16K, Aids
CAPITL.TXT, 16K, Capital Punishment
CULTUR, 24K, Christianity and Culture
DARWIN, 24K, Darwin On Trial (reviews Philip Johnson's book)
DIVORC, 24K, Divorce
DOCTRN.TXT, 8K, Probe Doctrinal Statement
ECOLOG, 16K, Christian Environmentalism
EUTHAN, 32K, Euthanasia: A Biblical Appraisal
GODDES, 24K, Goddess Worship
GR-CAN, 24K, The Grand Canyon and the Age of the Earth
HOMO, 24K, Homosexuality: Questions and Answers
MASON, 40K, Freemasonry and the Christian Church
OCCULT, 24K, The Occult Connection
POLREL, 24K, Politics and Religion
PORN, 24K, Pornography ROCK, 24K, Rock Music
SOCIOB, 24K, Evolution, Genes, and Morality
WHATIS.PRB, 8K, What Is Probe Ministries?
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There are also a number of files available related to social issues that
I didn't grab. CompuServe's system notes how many times each file has
been downloaded. It was interesting to see that by far the file on Aids
has received the most attention (other than the two files that describe
Probe and its doctrinal position).
RESOURCES
Christian Science now offers its Concord, the complete writings of Mary
Baker Eddy, on diskette for both DOS and Mac. The price will be $200
until the end of June when it goes up to $295. Call (800) 779-6005 for
more details. Christian Science Monitor, Jun 2 '94, p15.
I've mentioned in the past that the Lord has provided a source for CRI to
have its software (the CRI TEXT package for DOS and Mac, as well as
articles from our Newsletter and Journal) freely promoted and made
available on the Internet. Martin Bush, the system administrator of
ICLnet, says the CRI software in their library gets the most ftp attention
of any individual source they have (including unofficially provided files
from Focus on the Family and Prison Fellowship, among others). Current
download rates for our stuff run "approximately 150 files per day." (See
BBS-FYI 2:1 for background details.)
LISTSERVE NEWS
Thanks to John Brubaker, a co-author of the Not Just Bibles guide to the
Internet, for the following:
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The LDS discussion lists below are forums that allow
you to discuss your thoughts and feelings about
Mormonism with other members and interested parties.
The commentaries are my personal opinion, Brandon
Plewe - plewe@acsu.buffalo.edu, not anything official.
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Mormon-L
The most liberal/unorthodox of the forums.
To subscribe send mail to majordomo@teleport.com, no subject, body as
follows:
SUB MORMON-L (your name)
To submit articles, mail articles to mormon-l@teleport.com
To unsubscribe, send mail to mojordomo@teleport.com, no subject, body as
follows:
UNSUB MORMON-L
Digest-format archives are located here.
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LDSNet
Fairly moderate.
To subscribe send mail to LISTSERV@mainstream.com, no subject, body as
follows:
SUB LDS-NET (your name)
To submit articles mail articles to lds-net@mainstream.com
To unsubscribe send mail to LISTSERV@mainstream.com, no subject, body as
follows:
UNSUB LDS-NET
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Zion
A fairly conservative forum, discussions are normally in line with
official Church teachings.
To subscribe send mail to majordomo@zilker.net, no subject, body as
follows:
SUB ZION (your name)
To submit articles mail articles to zion@zilker.net
To unsubscribe send mail to majordomo@zilker.net, no subject, body as
follows:
UNSUB ZION
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Joseph
New, appears similar to Zion.
To subscribe send mail to joseph-req@edu-suu-cc.cc.suu.edu, no subject,
body as follows:
SUB JOSEPH (your name)
To submit articles mail articles to joseph@edu-suu-cc.suu.edu
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Centers on the philosophy of Ayn Rand.
THOT FOOD
I just finished listening to last year's debate at Willow Creek Community
Church between Frank Zindlar and William Lane Craig on the existence of
God. Having never heard Craig before, I was impressed. In particular I
was arrested by his memorable remarks on the place of creation evidence in
the sequence of apologetic presentation priorities:
The theory of evolution is irrelevant to the truth
of the Christian faith. Genesis One permits all
manner of different interpretations and Christians
are not necessarily committed to special creationism.
Howard Van Till of Calvin College, a Christian
school, asks, "Is the concept of special creation
required of all persons who trust in the Creator God
of Scripture? Most Christians in my acquaintance who
engaged in either scientific or biblical scholarship
have concluded that the special creationist picture
of the world's formation is not a necessary component
of Christian belief." And I want to emphasize this
is not a retreat caused by modern science. St.
Augustine in the 300s, in his commentary on Genesis,
argued that the days needn't be taken literally nor
need the creation be a few thousand years ago. He
didn't even envisage special acts of creation. He
said the world could have been made by God with
certain potencies that unfolded in the progress of
time. This interpretation was enunciated one-
thousand five-hundred years prior to Darwin. And
therefore this is a position that is consistent
with being a Christian.
BBS-FYI 2:11
July 11, 1994
NET NEWS
"Cruising the Information Highway" -- This month the General Conference
and North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has opened
their own forum on CompuServe. Four reasons were cited for choosing CIS
over other information service providers: 1) CIS has the largest number of
possible international subscribers [130 countries], 2) "90 to 95 percent
of homes and businesses in the United States can access CompuServe with a
local phone number rather than by long distance," 3) CIS allows clients
(the SDA in this case) to run their forum with their own personnel, and 4)
low user costs for private forum access. The forum is divided into 17
sections which include full text access to several official publications.
$7.00 per month, in addition to the $9.00 monthly for CIS in general,
gives you unlimited access to the forum (the same set up as the Christian
Interactive Net on CIS). "GO SDA" will take current CompuServe members to
the forum. Ministry, Jul '94, p10.
The GEnie New Age RoundTable was born on May 23, 1994, at 7:06AM EDT,
Rockville, MD. Split off of the generic "Religion & Philosophy
RoundTable," the New Age RT has 25 categories. Activity, while more
diverse, seems down from what it was a year ago (before GEnie's rate
change). I captured a complete index of the bulletin board there.
Ron Rhodes passed on a letter dated July 1 to AOL's membership from CEO
Steve Case. In it Case says everybody should soon have 9600 baud access
at no additional charge. For what it's worth in the stat department, he
also said, "America Online is handling over 10 million pieces of mail per
month." In addition, AOL is working on a Mosaic interface with the
Internet. A new, "Multimedia User Interfaces (MUI) that incorporate
photos, sound, and video" is supposed to be available in August as a
replacement front end for Mac users (with a Windows version due later).
"How Much Do Online Services Really Cost?" -- a sidebar with a chart that
rates the major players as follows:
Light Use* Medium Use* Heavy Use*
AOL $20.45 $44.95 $62.45
CIS $8.95 $39.25 $80.65
Delphi $44.00 $77.00 $158.00
E-World $44.55 $91.00 $142.30
GEnie $99.95 $200.95 $331.45
Prodigy $14.95 $18.55 $32.95 (Note: Somewhat
user-hostile, Prodigy offers no downloading and has seriously limited
Internet access.) Macworld, Aug '94, p90.
* - see the original article, "Macworld's Guide to Online Services," for
an idea of how these divisions were made.
LISTSERVE NEWS
Andrew Wilson recently visited NuRel-L again (AA18503), this time to
expound on Moonie soteriology. If you'll remember from an earlier issue
of the BBS-FYI, Wilson teaches Old Testament at the Unification
Theological Seminary. In this post he defines salvation from his
perspective and explains the "three stages" necessary to achieve it.
Included is an equally succinct explanation of the roles that free will
and human responsibility play.
Greg Slade, author of the Christian Telecommunications Toolkit (CTT)
mentioned previously in the BBS-FYI, has launched the CTT listserve. A
recent post from him included the best description of FamilyNet that I've
seen so far. Here it is:
FamilyNet is a FidoNet technology network which
uses the FidoNet protocols, but is not part of
FidoNet itself. FamilyNet consists of Zone 8,
and includes most of North America, Hong Kong,
parts of Australia and New Zealand, and Great
Britain. Unlike FidoNet, FamilyNet does
recognize special interest groups in the
nodelist, and has a "G-rated" rule banning
profanity in echoes and pornographic files, so
it has attracted a large number of Christian
BBSs and sub-networks, including the Christian
Distribution Network (CDN), Christian Fellowship
Network (CFN), Computers for Christ (CFC), and
the Messianic Jewish Computer Network (MJCN).
The host node of FamilyNet is Harvester BBS,
1:11/50 in FidoNet, and netmail addressed to a
FamilyNet BBS from a FidoNet BBS should be routed
through there. Netmail addressed to a FidoNet
BBS from a FamilyNet BBS should be routed through
8:8/1. Information on how to join FamilyNet is
contained in the file FMLYNET.ARC, which can be
downloaded or FREQed from [SOME OF THIS INFORMATION
IS INCORRECT. SEE THE CONCLUSION OF BBS-FYI 2:12].
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Greg Slade: Computer Aided Ministry Society, gslade@cyberstore.ca;
Fidonet 1:153/309; FamilyNet 8:7501/0; GMN 12:2000/37
On NuRel recently there was a response to a general request for
information on William Branham. It was a posting of two complete
articles, one from Media Spotlight and the other from PFO. This is the
first I've seen of a substantial digital resource on the subject other
than PFO's.
Gary Bogart passed on the following announcement of the new list:
NIGHT-L@UNICORN.ACS. TTU.EDU: an unmoderated list for discussion of
folklore, fact and fiction about supernatural creatures of all sorts
(ghosts, ghouls, demons, vampires, "things that go bump in the night",
etc). This list is for discussion of these topics only. Another list
will be provided for the posting of original fiction pertaining to the
supernatural.
Subscriptions to LISTPROC@UNICORN.ACS.TTU.EDU
List owner/coordinator: Morgan Bottrell raven@kehleyr.phys.ttu.edu
TELESTATS
"NCLIS Study Indicates 21% of Public Libraries on the Internet" -- even
though two-thirds to three-quarters of public libraries in cities with
populations of a quarter-million and up have Inet access, the common small
town library typically doesn't have it. And that is the cause of low stat
in the headline. Library Journal, Jun 1 '94, p16.
"Survey Finds 1 in 3 Homes Has a Computer" -- headline speaks for itself.
The story also notes that now 11 million Americans are using their modems
and that 18% of men use their home computer almost daily; women were at
half that figure. Interestingly, "among children described as home
computer users, 53% were boys and 47% girls." Los Angeles Times, May 24
'94, pD1.
RESOURCES
Jim Gallagher has revised and expanded his book, Modems and Ministry,
which is now available in paperback. The flyer I received reports that he
lists 33 Christian networks now along with over 600 individual Christian
BBS sources. Volume two is in the works. For more info, call (214)
539-7855 in Texas.
Dave Harmeyer, now the acting Library Director at the International School
of Theology, passed on the following very significant resource:
To: Multiple recipients of list ATLANTIS
<ATLANTIS@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject: UMI GOPHER
To check philosophy, religion, and theology UMI Dissertations Abstracts
from 1980-present, access the UMI Gopher. Unfortunately, you cannot
telnet directly to the UMI Gopher. However you can go through another
gopher to get to it.
Here's how:
1. Telnet CONSULTANT.MICRO.UMN.EDU
2. login: gopher
3. terminal type: vt100 (probably)
4. From menu choose Other Gopher and Information Servers
5. From menu choose All the Gopher Servers in the World
6. A list of gopher servers will show up. Choose no. 1362 (UMI Gopher)
HANDSHAKE
Using kenmyers@delphi.com will get you in touch with the founder of Mars
Hill Tapes, perhaps the most significant culture-watch resource available
to the Church today.
I bumped into Rich Buhler (70506,1237) on the Christian Interactive Net
within CompuServe recently. He was chatting in the Message Base on the
subject of Satanic Ritual Abuse (June 22):
"I've written a couple of books about victimization ... and am very
concerned about SRA. I BELIEVE the victims, that they've experienced
everything they remember. There is no documentation, however, that it was
done by Satanists. I am suspecting that the abuse is not being done by
people with religious motives...but by pedophiles who are simply using
Satanic props to confuse and discredit the kids...."
And speaking of the CIS Message Base, I don't like it near as much as
GEnie's set up. Even though GEnie is text driven it is better organized
and allows easier access to conversation thread history.
ERRATA
Issue 2:6 of the BBS-FYI reported that the Oneness-oriented Prime Network
of Steve Winter was the only system mentioned under the heading of
"Christian" in an article on religious boards by Online Access (Dec '93).
Recently I received my first complete copy of the magazine and discovered
that my source omitted some pages in the photocopy of the article upon
which I based my original report. While it is true that the article
begins with Prime, that is followed by a listing of the Christian
Fellowship network of Harold Robbins (part of FamilyNet) which appears to
be five times the size of the Prime system.
BBS-FYI 2:12
August 11, 1994
LISTSERVE NEWS
The Apologia list included the mention of a new newsgroup recently:
soc.religion.unitarian-univ (moderated).
The NuRel list included the text (IAA16973) of a very revealing July 26
speech by Sun Myung Moon at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C.
Andrew Wilson, mentioned previously in the BBS-FYI, who works "in the
[Unification] church headquarters building in NYC," says the message was
"meant for a select audience of missionaries and leaders, and not for the
general public." Due to the strong messianic consciousness expressed by
Moon in it, I can see why.
NET NEWS
"Ecunet Expands Worldwide" -- mentions the addition of directors in
England and Switzerland among other details, but not very informative
overall.
Church Bytes, Jul 15 '94, p1.
Just an observation. The current (August 15) issue of U.S. News & World
Report contains a story unlike any other in its history. Titled "New
Software, Old Computer" (p62), unaware readers would expect they were
reading a trade magazine and not a national news weekly. The piece gives
you detailed directions (including DOS commands) on how to get that old
hardware to work with the latest operating systems from Microsoft and
Apple.
"Battle for the Soul of the Internet" -- seven full pages, a good general
introduction. Time, Jul 25 '94, p50.
"High-Tech Witnessing" -- this one got by me, and it hurts. It is a
general introduction to evangelical online experience. It also includes
the sidebar "Christianity Today Goes Online" introducing "Christianity
Online" (here tentatively called "Christian Global Network"), CTi's
information service within America Online due "late this year."
Apparently, in addition to many other features, CTi will broker access to
the full text of other magazines besides their own eight titles.
Christianity Today, May 16 '94, p42.
RESOURCES
"Lost In Space" -- a profile on "the largest online collection [of UFO
data] in the world" at the UFO BBS in Gilroy, CA (408) 847-7910.
Boardwatch, Jul '94, p111.
>From Dave Harmeyer, "I've stumbled on to something you might want to try .
. . Lynx. It's a text based way of getting around in world wide web (WWW)
and one alternative to Mosaic. Telnet to it.njit.edu and at login: type
www. Enjoy."
"Catching on to the Internet" -- If you want a great resource for
introducing someone to computer telecommunications in general or the
Internet in specific, have them dial up InterNIC, the federal government's
five year project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, at (800)
444-4345. I called up and requested a digital copy of their InterNIC
Internet Starter Kit. All I had to do is give them my electronic address
and ...presto changeo. The 120K file is very comprehensive. Los Angeles
Times, Jul 26 '94, pH4.
"The Lubavitch Are Coming! The Lubavitch Are Coming!" -- that's right,
Gopher to lubavitch.chabad.org and you'll find this segment of the
Chassidic movement. How 'bout a Lubavitch mailing list? Send email with
the subject "Subscribe Me" to yyk@lubavitch.chabad.org with "Subscribe
all" in the body. L'chaim. Internet World, Sep '94, p18.
The National Christian Computing Expo & Convention will be held November
10-12 in Anaheim. Call (800) 456-1868 for more details. Christian
Computing, Sep '94, p29.
"Choice In Dying Establishes A Free BBS" -- New York City-based and
billing itself as a non-profit "national" organization, Choice In Dying
([212] 727-8219, voice [800] 989-9455) is "the nation's first [BBS]
devoted solely to right-to-die issues and end-of-life decision making."
It also claims to be "the nation's largest distributor of free,
state-specific advance directives, and source of free counseling services
about end-of-life decision making." Link-Up, Jul/Aug '94, p1.
Eric Pement e-mailed me a lengthy, very detailed account of the Rodney
Howard-Browne Campmeeting, Louisville, Kentucky, July 18-22, 1994
--written from the perspective of a dedicated follower. Quite telling.
Gary Bogart sent me version 2.0 of The Mage's Guide to the Internet, which
exists "to facilitate the exchange of esoteric materials, especially those
of a magical or mystical nature." Included are electronic addresses for
representatives of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and Temple of Set;
mailing lists on the "Hindu Digest," Sufism, "Feminist Religion,"
neopaganism, tarot, Kabalah, occult history and theory and Satanism;
telnet addresses (apparently) for text files from Yoga Journal and the New
Age Journal plus much more. The Mage's Guide is a product of OMNet
(Occult and Mysticism Network) and edited by Tyagi Nagasiva
(tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com).
TELESTATS
A thousand gigabytes is a terabyte, right? Well, after waiting for some
time, I just learned what the next level is. A thousand terabytes
constitutes an "exabyte." Now that's a whole lot of bytes folks!
MacWeek, Jul 11 '94, p1.
"Telecom Trivia" -- A pie chart of the Internet shows 70% of it in the
USA, 27% in Europe and only 2% in the Asia/Pacific sector. In addition,
"Between 1981 and 1986 the Internet grew 68% per year. Between 1986 and
1991, the annual rate increased to 191%. During the first part of 1993,
even though growth slowed in percentage terms, the network was adding
750,000 new users per month." Los Angeles Times, Jul 26 '94, pH6.
"Bragging Rights" -- CompuServe now has 2 million subscribers and, while
tied with Prodigy in numbers, it is the world's largest commercial
information service because Prodigy is limited to the USA. The story
reports that "much of CompuServe's recent growth -- about 80,000 new
sign-ups every month -- has come overseas" with native language interfaces
in Germany and France. Boardwatch, Aug '94, p103.
"A Boom for On-Line Services" -- predicting an approaching glut the story
reports a 25% annual growth rate for the industry with 5.5 million total
subscribers. In addition, 60 million computer users are said to live in
America today. The Internet is stated to now have 25 million users on 2.2
million host computers. Last but not least, America Online weighs in with
900,000 users. And now I'm one of them. I have dropped GEnie and am now
lurking on AOL (screen name/ID = RichPoll). New York Times, Jul 12 '94,
pC1.
"A Snapshot of the Internet" -- what should have been a clear statistical
presentation misses by a wide margin. Of interest however in the report
is the fact that of the 2.2 million host computers 636,000 are in the
educational domain with 516,000 being in the commercial domain. Combined
they represent just over half of the host total. The remainder is
comprised of "mostly national domain hosts," which went without any real
explanation. U.S. government and military hosts are represented in much
smaller numbers with organizational and network domains being the
smallest.
Overall byte traffic is mostly from file transfer with e-mail and Usenet
news together producing the second-largest amount. A total of 78
countries had full access to the Net and 146 having the ability to
exchange e-mail.
Internet World, Sep '94, p54.
"The Computer Age Bids Religious World to Enter" -- deep down in the
article Christian Computing magazine is said to have 35,000 subscribers in
45 countries. Further on, the Southern Baptist Convention is reported to
have 2,300 members in their SBC Net within CompuServe (sounds like the
same setup as Christian Interactive Net). New York Times, Jul 24 '94, p1.
EDITORIAL
The introduction to the very first issue of the BBS-FYI back in
November of '92 included the following: "The company that can best gather
and evaluate information will have an edge." Simple logic for an age in
which raw information replaces petroleum as the most valuable resource.
This was found in a column titled, "The Executive Computer" (New York
Times, May 13 '90, pF8).
Since then much has taken place. Consider the confirmation of this
trend mentioned in the July 26 '94 Los Angeles Times (pH2),
"...telecommunications business has grown to be the world's largest
economic sector, with a strategic importance that surpasses that of oil,
steel or even computers." A few column-inches later one reads that the
world market has grown 50% in the last year alone.
Folio Corporation, the leader in full-text retrieval software, asked
the following question recently in its quarterly magazine, "How does a
company keep its competitive edge in the Information Age?" The answer:
those who lead will provide the most efficient and varied digital access
in response to their customer's interests (including automated fax
service, online access, and CD-ROM publication just for openers).
ERRATA
Eric Pement passed on the following corrections to the last issue of the
BBS-FYI coming directly from Bob Hoffman sysop of the Chicago Area
Computer Center (CACC), the real host node of FamilyNet [708-230-9068 &
708-739-0201]. His system used to be called "Harvester BBS" (and formerly
11/50, but now 115/887 in FidoNet). Netmail addressed to a FamilyNet BBS
from a FidoNet BBS should be routed through 8:8/0 and NOT 8:8/1 as stated
in the previous issue. Information on how to join FamilyNet is contained
in the file FMLYNET.ARC, which can be FREQed from node 8:8/0 (708)
739-0033 -- not the node mentioned previously.
Please note: CRI's file, named BBSFYI2A.TXT is assembled verbatim,
and with permission, in five parts at ICLnet to make the file
available to our World Wide Web Readers. Please do not respresent
this file in incomplete form elsewhere without express written
consent from CRI.
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