What Official stance does AA take with regards to those Online Meetings you see being held all over the internet? Well here is the response I recieved, when I posed that very question to the GSO a while back.
"... Just as with F2F meetings, each meeting chooses whether or not to identify itself as an AA meeting. Our General Service Office experience is that a meeting identifies itself as AA if it is put on by AAs for AAs about AA and follows the Steps, Traditions and principles of AA.
The Long Form of Tradition Three states, “Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend on money or conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.”
Tradition Five (The Long Form) “Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose – that of carrying the message to the alcoholic who still suffers.”
We hope this sharing is helpful to you.
In fellowship, V****** O’Neill
General Service OfficeStaff
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