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Scientology, RRE

``` The conflict between the Church of Scientology and its opponents on the Internet has been accelerating lately. See the following URL's:

http://www.gate.net/~shipbrk/Co$/flag-rpt.html http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/home.html

I encourage everyone to inform themselves and others about the Church and the controversies surrounding it.

On a happier note, RRE now welcomes its first subscribers from Botswana, Lithuania, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Uruguay. About 3800 people now subscribe directly, and about a dozen sites run local RRE distribution lists.

Many people, I gather, are still unaware of the meaning of the phrase "red rock eater". It's explained in the FAQ, but here it is anyway. It comes from Bennett Cerf's Riddle Book:

Q: What's big and red and eats rocks? A: A big red rock eater.

I thought this was hysterical when I was four years old, and I still do. Here is a slightly more mature sequel from a subscriber's five-year-old in New Zealand:

Q: What's big and red and eats sand? [Typical stupid grown-up answer: "A big red sand eater?". Duh...] A: A big red rock eater on a diet.

The phrase "red rock eater", in short, means nothing at all. I simply wanted to choose as un-computer-like a name as I possibly could.

Phil ```

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