From rain@teleport.com Tue Dec 5 20:22:34 1995 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com (nova.unix.portal.com [156.151.1.101]) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA03760 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 20:22:33 -0800 Received: from desiree.teleport.com (desiree.teleport.com [192.108.254.21]) by nova.unix.portal.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA29051 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 20:22:32 -0800 Received: from kelly.teleport.com (rain@kelly.teleport.com [192.108.254.10]) by desiree.teleport.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA19448; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 20:23:39 -0800 Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 20:23:39 -0800 From: Rain Message-Id: <199512060423.UAA19448@desiree.teleport.com> To: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com, acelt@netcom.com Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.pagan,alt.religion.wicca Subject: History of Alt.Religion.Wicca (was Re: Wiccans and alt.magick) Summary: ARW is not yet a year old, began as rogue group. References: <492p7o$sal@jobe.shell.portal.com> <49nr71$51n@sloth.swcp.com> <49v617$rdl@jobe.shell.portal.com> Followup-To: alt.religion.wicca,alt.pagan Organization: The Rain Puddles, http://www.teleport.com/~rain Status: RO In article <49v617$rdl@jobe.shell.portal.com>, Lorax wrote: >ARW was intended as a focussing move to excise non-Wiccan discussion >and settle into a more limited forum. Rain a few others instigated it >and then set about creating a 'FAQ' right away (mistake?). > >Lorax the evul wikkun Hmmmm. If the FAQ was a mistake or not I'm not sure. I hope not, but some FAQ was being written, and I thought it best to see it was done with as much input as possible (and an even-handed sense of history, I hope; it is always such a delicate balance to write about one's religion.) I would hope folks would publish more follow-up comments on it, but I imagine its tenacity is some substitute for virtue. ;) Alternative (on-topic) realities are of course always welcome. For the record, although I was here at the beginning I was not in on the creation of ARW in December, 1994. I understand from some that it was created as a rogue group (no discussion on alt.config), some claiming this was done by a few on alt.pagan who felt things were too hot and critical there. Since I didn't create it and don't remember who did, I won't say much more. (I wonder sometimes if they even read it anymore.) Being not yet a year old, it seems odd that ARW is spoken of "historically." Certainly many folks have appreciated the separate forum, for the specificity and small-pond feel, if nothing else. a big fish? -- rain@teleport.com ************************************************************************** //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////