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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Web Guru Fights Info Pollution

By and others ⋅ October 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

By Jo Twist BBC News Online technology reporter E-mail, the net, weblogs, instant messaging, text messaging, multi-media messaging… the list of ways to communicate electronically in the 21st Century is growing. To some, all these tools which are only a couple of clicks and screen flicks away have transformed the way they work and run […]

Odd Mishaps Cause Computer Grief

By and others ⋅ October 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

A man so angry with his laptop that he shot it has topped an annual league table of the oddest computer mishaps. Data recovery experts say although machine failure is blamed for the majority of lost files, humans are getting more careless too. But while ways to rescue files are increasingly sophisticated, people have to […]

Common E-Mail Mistakes

By and others ⋅ October 7, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Kim Komando Billions of e-mail messages travel throughout the Internet every day. Here are six easily avoidable e-mail mistakes. 1. Writing too much The whole purpose of e-mail is brevity. If you want to write a letter, then write a letter. A long e-mail just encourages the recipient to skim it or worse, not read […]

Aus.Religion.Christian Newsgroup

By and others ⋅ October 7, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Chris, is this a moderated group? (7/10/03) ~~~ Not at present. It used to be officially “retro-moderated”; after a formal discussion and vote. This is a feature which is unique to the aus.* newsgroup hierarchy as far as I know. It means that posts are propogated and distributed as usual, but that an authorized robot […]

Usenet Guidelines

By and others ⋅ October 7, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Some basic guidelines, which will help anyone have a better Usenet experience… — Be friendly. Don’t vilify of insult others. — Be accepting. People have different views; there is no offense or insult in the mere fact that people have different religious beliefs. — Be focussed. Limit the groups you use to those which are […]

Google

By and others ⋅ October 6, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I wrote to a newsgroup netfriend (end of August 2003): you don’t have an egomaniacal search-habit where you Google (that’s now a verb eh?) your name through the Web etc. I get emails every day from people who do that, and they’re frankly a pain, when they ask me to edit fairly minor things… And […]

Aus.Religion.Christian Newsgroup July 2003

By and others ⋅ September 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Message-ID: <3f053620>From: Chris Ho-StuartSubject: Re: Finding a sane Christian newsgroupNewsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion [Material quoted from previous articles has been omitted at theauthor’s request. The topic was on whether or not it was appropriatefor an atheist to participate in these religious groups.] The charter for aus.religion.christian and aus.religion canbe found here:<http://danny.oz.au/communities/aus.religion/Charter.html> Here is the introduction: This charter […]

Newsgroup Etiquette

By and others ⋅ September 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Message-ID: <3f00>From: Chris Ho-StuartSubject: Re: Selling Bibles 🙂Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian [Material quoted from previous posts has been omitted at the author’s request.] I am not commenting on that subject. I am simply making a brief comment on good use of the internet. I really feel for you; and would very much like your experience here to […]

Crossposting In Newsgroups

By and others ⋅ September 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Message-ID: <3f00>From: Chris Ho-StuartSubject: Re: Selling Bibles 🙂Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian [Material quoted here from previous articles has been omitted at the author’s request.] Actually, it is considered good netiquette to snip groups. This is not about "relevance", and it does not remove the posts of other people; it is purely about deciding where you want to […]

Plaxo: Be Careful

By and others ⋅ September 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

From a netfriend: I’m wondering if anyone on this list is worried about getting Plaxo’d. Is there some definitive/authoritative critique of it anywhere? First, from a friend of a friend: Dear Friends, I’ve just been notified by my Postmaster that there’s “a new, great-sounding Internet service called Plaxo at http://www.plaxo.com, which is offering users of […]

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