The old "Philia" mailing list....

by Country Girl 9 Replies latest jw friends

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  Country Girl

  Anyone remember the old Philia mailing list for XJW's? That was back in the days before the WWW, when the Internet didn't have graphics, and you had to subscribe to mailing lists by sending a request to the particular server and requesting to subscribe. You then only got text response from all members of the mailing list. I remember getting a book that had lists of all the lists, and finding an XJW list on there, and subscribing to it. On it were Randall Waters, Kent Steinhaug, James Penton, and several other "old-timers." That's when I first came to realize the "truth about the truth."

  Any old members of Philia here? I am not sure whatever happened to that list, but they were a great bunch of people. I still keep in touch with a few of them, and some of them were on the old H2O board. This was around 1993, 94 and 95.

  Country Girl
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  jschwehm

  I was on the list back in 1995.

  Jeff S.
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  Country Girl

  Hi Jeff! I remember you! I will PM you!

  CG
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  galaxy7

  i wondered what the heck was going on at ewatchmans discussion board

  Philia this and Philia that whats that supposed to mean,

  i thought it was some insiders code
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  funkyderek

  Yeah, back when the Internet was in black and white . I was on it around 1996-8; also used to hang out in the #philia chatroom in IRC
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  jukief

  I was one of the founders. :-) Country girl, I think I know who you are! Julie
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  Country Girl

  Yep, one of its more loud-mouthed members.. heheh. Hey Julie, Jeff, and Derek! I miss that old IRC chatroom... it was so much fun on Friday nights! There was one song we all used to play to each other when we came into the chat room, and we all got a big snort outta that.. although I can't remember the name of the song. Seems it was a silly country song... Nice to see you guys are still around!

  I remember our first official Apostofest back in 1995... had some come down from washington, canada, etc. and "unbaptized" two elders in one of the members' bathtubs. Fun...

  CG
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  garybuss

  I was on Jes Wit list and then Philia. That was back in my touring days and I would take three week trips away from everything. I really learned a lot from the people on those lists. GaryB
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  Scully

  Yes, I was on Philia starting around February 1995. It was an excellent starting point for me.

  I actually just found some old archived e-mails from the list and was reading through them... cool memories!

  Love, Scully
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  AlanF

  Yeah, I was one of the original 5 members back in 1994. The list still exists, I understand.

  AlanF