Chinacat -> Ross Cassell wrote:

 ->> Exactly how am I destroying the echo...

 C> It's always been your stated goal from the first minute you started posting
 C> here to destroy HolySmoke.


A stated goal...

Okay, then I must have written it, if so, please provide the cite, else
expose yourself as a liar.

 ->> However this echo is not going to be the sewer it once was and if you
 C> do not
 ->> like it, you can remove this echo from your queue on fidotel.

 C> It was only a 'sewer' to people like you who want to force religion on
 C> everybody. Styxx Allum and Fred Leff started this echo as a place for those
 C> of us without gods. It was a place to go to get away from the preaching and
 C> sermonizing and demonizing. But you came looking for us, didn't you.

I aint forcing religion on you, only a weak minded conspiracy theorist such
as yourself thinks this.

I simply decided to make this echo a place where both sides could debate.

I can name a slew of echoes that have changed from their original purposes
over the years, its called change, look the term up.

 ->> If this echo was so near and dear to your heart, where the fugg were you
 C> over
 ->> the past several years?

 C> Working for a small publishing house as a book editor, cleaning up raw
 C> translations from several Balkan languages into readable American English;
 C> working for the union; enjoying having my son and grandson live here with
 C> us; visiting other atheist sites where the previous moderator (Quarrella)
 C> hadn't turned over the place to those who want nothing less than complete
 C> obliteration of anyone who disagrees with them on anything.

Well you chose your poison, got busy and was distracted, that isnt my fault.

As to your latter point, I think the bulk of the messages in here have come
from Ceppa and Sauer and yourself, all of which have demonstrated a 
fervent hatred of religion, and you have not been stifled in expressing
yourself. The fact that you feel your viewpoint is unchallengeable is quite
telling, evidence of a weak mind. One would think you would want people
with a divergent viewpoint to debate with, instead of singing to the
chorus?

 C> Oh, and protecting my investments in hosting space from hostile attacks
 C> originating out of this echo.

I take it, you are David Rice?

Can you please elaborate on the attacks on your web sites that have
originated from this echo since its resurgence?

 C> That's where I've been.

Just to fill you in, up to a couple months ago and going back to 2003 and
earlier, this echo was devoid of any meaningful traffic, except for a brief
message exchange here and there..  While it could be said that the bulk of
todays traffic is the result of only a handful of people, the message
threads are more sustaining than the tid bits that showed up in here since
the echo got quiet in the intervening years.

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