Tonight's Chat.

[hamster8 at hotmail.com]

Good morning,

As those of you who were in tonight will be aware, I was filling in 
for Rita with the chat saving and general admin duties ... Rita being 
away ... so I hope I lived up to the high standards we have come to 
know her for.  If I didn't, well, I'll be in France for the next two 
weeks, so you can talk about how dreadful I was behind my back.

Anyway, I come here now with a more serious motive.  As those of you 
who were there must be aware, we got a bit heavy, and some of the 
topics we touched on were controversial, to say the least.

I'm aware that there are some of you who probably do not want me to 
post the chat script at the chat scripts group.  That's quite okay.  
I don't think we should either.  There are also some of you who felt 
that a censored version would be a better idea.  Well, I don't 
believe in censorship for that reason.  We may have been 
controversial, but I don't want chat to smack of being turned into 
some kind of police state, and I'm sure the rest of the regular 
chatters don't, either.

I am willing to send out unedited copies to people who were in chat 
who request them of me.  We shall see if the script should be posted 
or not at a later date.  For now, I won't be posting it.

I'm sorry to foist this on you people ... most of you reading this 
weren't there, and don't have a clue what I'm on about.  To you guys, 
I'm sorry to seem so heavy, I just really, really do not want to 
offend anybody.

I also realise that this post is going way and above my lowly lurker 
status on this list, and I'm assuming to dabble in stuff I have no 
right to dabble in.  I'm not a mod here, and I do not presume to be 
one all of a sudden.  So I'm deeply, deeply sorry for that, as well.

Anyway ... if the chatters, and chatters only, *please*, could get 
back to me to make their views known, and we'll decide what I am to 
do.

Cheers, and sorry again

Al