Subj : RE: ALCOHOLISM, POLITICS AND AUSTRAL
To   : Phil Runyan
From : Howie Coombe
Date : Tue Oct 23 2001 12:20 pm

Dear phil, i will rsvp the rest of this message asap,.
 > AAs who have a difficult time maintaining long term sobriety. That's 
 > very simplified and I'll post the article if you or anyone else 
 > would like. 
 > 
 > I'm also grateful that this echo has been maintained on the backbone 
 > for all this time with so little traffic. When I first got the BBS 
 > running (sometime last century) there was quite a lot of traffic, 
 > but that was before everyone could, or even wanted, internet access. 
 > I liked the old days because of the sense of community the local bbs 
 > gave and that it really seemed like we were doing something 
 > 'special'. Reaching across the country and around the world 
 > extending our local community into a greater community of people 
 > with common interests. It seemed that there were fewer "posers" in 
 > the old bbs days and it wasn't like every 12 year old with a phone 
 > line was participating. Yes, I'm going all misty eyed for the good 
 > old days :-)
 > 
 > Things my sponsor told me:
 > ... that a person can carry the message in 2 minutes. Everything 
 > past that is ego. ... that once a person comes into AA they never have to 
drink again. If they do it's because they want to. ... if you work the steps as 
suggested you won't ever have to drink again. If you do it's because you quit 
working the steps.
 > 
 > l8r,
 > p.
 > 
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