Adam Turner wrote:
>
> John Gillis wrote:
> >
> > >Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:08:41 +0100
> > >To:Mark J Bradakis <mjb@autox.team.net>
> > >From:jgillis@mail.tcd.ie (John Gillis)
> > >Subject:Re: FW: Let's talk about Triumphs!
> > >
> > >>[BOUNCE triumphs@Autox.Team.Net: Non-member submission from
> > >>[LESNYD@monsanto.com]]
> > >>
> > >> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:46:20 -0600
> > >> From: LESNYD@monsanto.com
> > >> Subject: Let's talk about Triumphs!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>This morning I received 4 digests from the Triumphs list in the mail.
> > >>In those digests were a total of 204 messages, and the subject matter
> > >>broke down like this:
> > >>
> > >> Personal comments
> > >> (age, habits, jokes, etc.): 8 ( 4%)
> > >> TRF (including Coventry Inn and
> > >> whining about not getting the newsletter): 69 (34%)
> > >> Actual discussion about Triumphs: 80 (39%)
> > >> Beer or Brits: 38 (19%)
> > >> Wanted/For Sale: 7 ( 3%)
> > >> Random non-LBC discussion: 2 ( 1%)
> > >>
> > >>I've been on this list since 1991, and I've never seen the
> > >>signal-to-noise ratio so low. This is exactly what caused me to leave
> > >>the British-Cars list a while back.
> > >>
> > >>Please reread Mark's intro to the list (you get it when you subscribe,
> > >>I don't know where else it lives), and understand that each little
> > >>piece of useless fluff you send to this list goes out to lots and lots
> > >>of people, most of whom have no interest in your little aside to a
> > >>previous piece of useless fluff.
> > >>
> > >>I've learned a lot from this list, but I have to admit it's been a while.
> > >>
> > >>Please folks, 80 Triumph-related posts out of 204 on a Triumphs mailing
>list
> > >>is awful! Please think before you mail off your funnylittle comment!
> > >>
> > >>Thanks for listening,
> > >>
> > >>Larry in St. Louis
> > >
> > >
> > >HERE HERE, I'm with you on this one> I have a limited amount of time for
> > >reading off the list. and like as much data (Triumph) as possible in that
> > >time. I really don't care how fast you made your Triumph go, and how you
> > >got away without a fine, or even how you would like to be fined for
> > >speeding, for God's sake !!!!
> > >John Gillis.
> > >
>
> I would have thought TRF's a fair topic for a Triumphs list as an
> important source of spare parts, and in the case of the Coventry Inn,
> oesophegal lubricants (that was humour, by the way). Likewise
> wanteds/for sales - good way of finding a car that might actually have
> been cared for by someone who's interested in the subject.
>
> So
>
> Actual discussion + TRF + Wanted/ for sale = 76% isn't a bad showing, in
> purely statistical terms.
>
> I now resist the opportunity to indulge my fairly highly developed wit
> as a riposte to lumping together Brits and beers to point out that
>
> 100-76=24% miscellaneous crap is worth putting up with when novices like
> me can get answers to pretty knotty mechanical/electrical problems in
> about 24 hours, not least from your good self. Particularly when that
> "crap" puts a smile on my face, makes new contacts and even friends.
>
> I genuinely admire your knowledge of and interest in Triumph cars, and
> indeed the venerable seat of learning (Trinity) which, de facto, you
> represent. However, I do feel it might be opportune to suggest a little
> tolerance of personality types and means of expression which differ from
> ones own. It might even prove enriching.
>
> If not, we all know where the exit is.
>
> Adam Turner
> '74 TR6
Let's get a life. I enjoy what I read on the list and I delete through
the items I'm not interested in. I read about 30%. Sometimes I find a
wimsical string I really enjoy and I feel I'm better off for it.
Thank you, fellow listers, for the entertainment. Press on Scions.
Bill 78Spit
80 Wedge
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