Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control …

July 22, 2008

Guest post from Todd Littleton while Paul is away at camp and without Internet access.

A few years ago I sent out a weekly email. Inadvertently I left the “o” off of the end of “Hello.” You can imagine my grief when my good friend, and now fellow pastor, Wayne wrote me making fun of my gaff. While he took it in stride as a typographic error I could only think someone might think I had done this on purpose. Quickly I sent out a follow-up expressing regret that while my “spell checker” did not find a mis-spelled word there indeed was a “mis-spelled” word in my greeting. I had every intention of saying, “Hello!”

Sometimes the electronic mediums create occasions where the slight of finger changes the meaning of everything. Other times there are sinister “dummy” servers designed to sneak into a website material offensive to all.

Paul called me last night. His voice reflected the dread that someone may read his blog and discover one of these “dummy” servers designed to “spam” websites with impunity. He asked if I would help him out as he did not know of this and could do nothing about it while at camp. Of course, I obliged.

With the help of our friend David we have installed some extra measures with the hope this may be avoided in the future. If you are new to reading here you should know those who design these “dummy” servers work tirelessly to “get around” the “walls” we build to keep them out. If you have read Paul’s thoughts for some time, you know well he would never intend for this kind of nonsense to show up on his blog. If you had the thought he may have done this on purpose, you should be incarcerated for ignorance. That is not in Paul’s nature. Despite his occasional foray into the satirical, this stuff is evil and denigrating.

So, in honor of his request, I am glad to pop over here and post something of an apology and explanation. We apologize if you have been offended. Trust us, we have been too. We will continue to exercise diligence to avoid this kind of thing happening in the future. We ask you go give us the benefit of the doubt knowing Paul and his character and that he would never knowingly allow this kind of trash here at his internet home.