From:    Farrell McGovern                       Area: Mundane
To:      All                                     9 Feb 97 23:58:30
Subject: PODCON: The Gathering                  UpdReq 

* Original Area: magicknet
* Original To  : All (93:9610/0)
Greetings:
        For over a decade now, first on Magicknet, then PODnet,
many of us have been conversing, exchanging ideas, and yes,
sometimes even fighting...but through that all we have slowly
been building a community throughout our little portion of
Cyberspace. We've helped people get over death, near death,
financial crisis's, and a great variety of other crisis...and we
have celebrated friend's great joys, births, joinings, and
generally getting their lives togther. Many virtual hugs of
comfort and joy have been exchanged over the years.
        But in all of this, we have missed one thing: Meeting
each other face to face to make those hugs actual rather than
virtual.
        A few of us would like to change that, and we are looking
for some people to help us with that.
        We have started a new echo called PODCON Planning,
echotag "podcon_planning". It is available from 93:9000/0 and
myself (93:9610/0) right now. Moderator is myself.
        A few inital details about this initiative:
        - We are aiming, very tentativly, at the holding it the
weekend before, or the weekend after the World Science Fiction
Convention in San Antonio, Texax this year.

- Location, again very tenativly, is somewhere in the Austin
Area.

- There is a strong push to have it in the format of a camping
festival, and a weeker push to have it in a hotel in a convention
format, ala a Science Fiction convention. (late news...we might 
have found a site that gives us both!)
        So, if you feel you can give us a hand in anyway, shape
or form, please pick up ask your Sysop this echo, and jump in
once you are connected!
        Thank you very much for you time.
ttyl
     Farrell
 

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From:    Vulpie                                 Area: Mundane
To:      Jrtm                                   12 Feb 97 15:14:02
Subject: Sex Offenders                          UpdReq 

JR> * Crossposted from: FIDO Civil Liberties Echo
JR>Now I'm not in favor of sex crimes, but neither am I in favor of
JR>this first cousin to _ex post facto_ legislation.  We, the people
JR>(actually they, the people of Kansas), through elected
JR>representatives, decided at one time that the punishment for child
JR>sexual molestation was five to 20 years.  By what right can the
JR>Kansas Legislature impose a virtual life sentence on someone who
JR>already was sentenced to a lesser term?
   I'm against a life sentence for sex offenders, too.
   See my tagline.  It tells my opinion so well.
Blessed be.
___
 X SLMR 2.0 X An executed child molestor doesn't reoffend.


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From:    Eileen O'Croinan                       Area: Mundane
To:      Farrell McGovern                       25 Feb 97 22:16:54
Subject: PODCON: The Gathering                  UpdReq 

 FM>         But in all of this, we have missed one thing: Meeting
 FM> each other face to face to make those hugs actual rather than
 FM> virtual.
 FM>         A few of us would like to change that, and we are looking
 FM> for some people to help us with that.
 FM>         We have started a new echo called PODCON Planning,
 FM> echotag "podcon_planning". It is available from 93:9000/0 and
 FM> myself (93:9610/0) right now. Moderator is myself.
 FM>         A few inital details about this initiative:
 FM>         - We are aiming, very tentativly, at the holding it the
 FM> weekend before, or the weekend after the World Science Fiction
 FM> Convention in San Antonio, Texas this year.
Welcome, neighbor!
 FM> - Location, again very tenativly, is somewhere in the Austin
 FM> Area.
 FM> - There is a strong push to have it in the format of a camping
 FM> festival, and a weeker push to have it in a hotel in a convention
 FM> format, ala a Science Fiction convention. (late news...we might 
 FM> have found a site that gives us both!)
>>>wow<<<  Let me know where, so that I might make arangements to work nearby 
(I'm a TX Registered Massage Therapist, with contacts for paying clients in 
most major municipalities in-state)
 FM>         So, if you feel you can give us a hand in anyway, shape
 FM> or form, please pick up ask your Sysop this echo, and jump in
 FM> once you are connected!
I'd like to be there...  Will cross-post this to StarChild, since I'd be 
dragging him along!
 FM>         Thank you very much for you time.
Thank You, for the courtesy of the notice!
B*B!
Eileen


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