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>>I'm sorry that it got to this point. Respectful discussions of religion have traditionally been a way that we learn about each other, but I have to agree that it's gotten out of hand. I really hate that one person has forced two different community forums to take this action.
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>Just like any other thing which was OK while it was used in a moderate and civilized manner, then got out of control. Pretty much like how email was good before spam was invented.

... and if I'm not mistaken, it was "invented" accidentally (i.e. the first recorded spamming incident was unintentional).

Speaking of E-mail related problems... I recall back when I was at university, on the Unix systems on-campus had a daemon (i.e. a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user) that would monitor the disc space. When the free space went below a certain threshold level, it would E-mail everyone -- informing that they should clean out any old files the don't need to make up more free space. Suffices to say, that this daemon would occasionally fill up the remaining free space with the E-mail it would send.