Higher-Fire Administration stuff

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Greetings Saints in Jesus name!

Busy...busy...busy weekend on the list.  Pretty heavy traffic!
Since we're all kinda recovering from email read lag, let me
suggest a couple of things....

1) concering the prophecy threads ....

   Awfully plentiful.  If at all possible, please try and keep
   the volume and number down a little.  Even though posts sailed
   through this weekend.  Posts concerning prophecy can easily
   eclipse the normal and regular threads that are in need of 
   discussion.  So, if you can, please just pull the reigns back
   a little bit and not post quite so much (for now) volume and
   count.  If I were to make a rule to go by... if you want to talk
   about prophecy, maybe limit it to ONE or TWO posts per person 
   per day.... o.k.... (ONE would probably be better)

2) still about the prophecy threads ...

   I've emailed the information provider coordinator
(ipc@prairienet.org)
   to ask if we can host a second list as well for use of discussing
   prophecy (and maybe deeper truths of doctrine).  If granted, then
   you all that want to talk prophecy deeply, can do so by subscribing
   to that list (which I'll call for now FUTURE-FIRE) if and when it
   happens.  Bro. Brown has offered to keep archives of such a group
   if indeed it happens at eli.wariat.org as well.  So... just to let
   you all know... we're thinking of you.  We don't want to squelch 
   what you have to say.  We (at least me - cuz I really ain't discussed
   this with Bro. Masoner) feel that something like this would be a
great
   resource as well.  

   The reason for a separate group to discuss prophecy (if it's really
   needed) is primarily to segregate the really *long* verbose posts
   (like the kind that prophecy normally is) from the regular sized
posts
   of normal-type higher-fire email.  It just seems that the prophecy 
   posts have the knack for energizer bunnyhood.  They keep
going-n-going-
   n-going-n-going, post-after-post-after-post, they just keep comming.

Let me (and or Bro. Richard) know about such a list.  I know at one
time,
that Bro. Brown's been advocating the need for a *ministers-only* type 
list where such things as this could be done.  I don't know if I'd be 
willing to do a *ministers-only* list, unless it was only the ministers
that subscribed to it and not the lay folk because the volume and length
of messages are too much for some lay folk to digest.

Also.... Prairienet is in need of funds to the point where they *will*
start
charging members a yearly fee.  They are in need of raising between
$150K and
$200K to meet the bills by the end of the fiscal year (end of May or
June) in 
order to stay afloat and not have the University of Illinois pick up the
deficit.  Higher-Fire is hosted by prairienet, I don't know what kind of
a bind (if even there is one) that this puts Bro. Richard's church as an
official Information Provider.  In the old rules, organizations that are
*non-profit* didn't have to pay to be an Information Provider at
prairienet.  This may/may not change.  I don't know.  I know that I've
gotten by freely these years but am about to pay for a years *family*
subscription to prairienet to the tune of $60 (for all e-address
originating from my household).  Organization that are *for-profit* are
supposed to pay $150 per year to be an Information Provider.  I don't
know whether this will change or not.  Non-profit IP's may be free, but
then maybe not.... I don't know right now.

Bro. "just thought ya'll'd like to/should know" Tyler