From the ars files: TNX Leak Email from Ron Chester, administrator of the TNX-L mailing list for Scientologists in good standing, was leaked this week to a.r.s. Ron asks the unknown Scientologist poster to stop posting at the request of the OSA. "As TNX Administrator, it is sometimes necessary for me to look around ars a bit, usually in response to applications for TNX that have been submitted. I have also become our liaison with the person handling the Internet at OSA Int, and we have developed a good working relationship. As a result of a number of comm cycles with OSA, I learned that the Church does not want any Church public posting to this entheta forum. We have never made a point of this publicly on TNX, because we found that, in the past, TNX posts that discussed how to handle ars somehow ended up reposted to ars. [So - all clams here in ARS are either hatted by OSA or are "illegal"] "Now a while back I was looking around ars, because of an application to TNX that we had received. In the course of doing that, I discovered that you had posted quite a few messages to ars. So before saying anything to you about it, I called OSA to see if they had changed their view of this at all. Once again, I found that they consider that it is their hat to handle ars, and they do not want any public posting to ars for any reason. They asked me to refer you to the relevant policies, and to ask you to stop. "Nearly every time an on-lines Scn'ist posts a message, regardless of its content, it brings on an entheta response (and sometimes many) from the sps. So even though you may not quote their entheta (and thus forward it along), your response gives them a reason to state it again, and again and again. [Got that Magoo - we're gonna spread it more and more everytime you run your mouth!] "I believe this may be the main reason OSA does not want public posting to ars. I have seen threads started by Scn'ists that have been followed by a dozen or more entheta replies. Or a Scn'ist will post a reply to a thread, and this will spawn another batch of entheta responses. So if we post anything, no matter how theta, to an entheta forum, it can cause the volume of entheta to increase many times over. That's why the sps love it when Scn'ists start posting to ars. It gives them another chance to state their enemy lines over and over again. [And don't you know it!] "I created TNX so there would be a theta forum for Scn'ists, so that they could leave ars behind. I think your time would be better spent on TNX, rather than messing around with ars. Leave that task to the staff at OSA."

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