[Spridgets] hit a new low = politics now religion - Cya

[David Lieb]

> Consider going on the digest if you can't take the barrage any more.

Isn't that the reason that MJB offers the Spridgets-Mod? or does that option 
still exist with the current list server software? I wouldn't know. No one 
is required to agree with anyone else's opinions. Heck, I don't agree with 
all of the Spridget advice doled out on this List, either.

I have not seen any "religious views" promoted on this List. Sure, I quoted 
Deuteronomy 25 and Billy referred to Acts 9, but neither one was promoting 
any religious view. In fact, any fundamentalist would have taken us to task 
for dealing flippantly with the holy scriptures.

All of the political views have been fairly easy to detect and/or delete 
without exposing oneself to possible contamination.

Remember that, like a credit union, we have a common characteristic 
(Spridgets) that unites us. We also have many differences. I was going to 
say that we are all friends, but it is more like we are all family. There 
are people in my family that I would just as soon not hear from, too. I sure 
don't care to listen to them discussing politics ;-) If only they would send 
them to me as carefully labelled emails so I could simply delete them...

Please bear in mind that, since our Spridgets run so well and require so 
little done to them, we have to fill in the gaps with something else so we 
can tell that the List is still functional. We used to have a "Cap'n Bob" 
module that used artificial intelligence to generate spurious messages so we 
could tell that we had not been mysteriously unsubscribed. Unfortunately, it 
worked so well that people thought it was a real person and started putting 
up filters to automatically delete these messages, so it was discontinued. 
The concept is being tried again with messages sent by an AI module that 
calls itself "ED" (after all, would a real human name themselves for a 
medical condition like that?). Once again, the filters are defeating the 
purpose, so I guess "ED" will be disappearing soon, too. I wonder what will 
be next.
David Lieb