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Subject: Discussion board

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Merv

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Date Posted: 21:06:51 01/07/04 Wed

There are serious problem with having a disccusion group on the website. If the members pay money to be on the website, how can you ban them from using the discussion group? If you can't ban them or moderate what goes in, you can't control it at all.

When you ban a paying member or stop his posts from going in, you are going to create an enemy who wants his money back. That is fine but it is still a problem.

Roy wants to attract new people in order to get the information about the meditation out. There are people entering the website from all parts of the world now. If the main drift of the meditation is to give up anger and resentment, how does a board with angry people trying to bash one another over the head with the truth come in?

Also Roy would probably not want a mutual admiration society either, so what kind of discussion board would the Foundation really want or expect?

In addition there will be from time to time those who hate what Roy is offering to the world and will come in to the avenues of communication in order to hurt Roy.

Communicating in writing is conducive to arguing. That is just the way it is. Words are thrown back and forth by people who are sitting safely behind their computers. An open discussion board will almost always have arguments and eventually someone will get hostile. It just happens. The website will have to deal with this somehow.

Overall, it is a difficult situation for those who run the website. I can understand why Roy was hesitant to get into it and why he shut it down. He simply wants to get the word out to the world if possible and anything that does not further that goal and may work the other way is something to be concerned about. Without it he has one less problem.

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