Ken,
Don't beat yourself up or take offense at some of the remarks condemning
this latest surge of non-Triumph related bandwidth.
I look at the situation like this:
We all started out by reading each and every posting because it was all
new to us. As we stayed on the list, we started seeing the same
questions asked followed by the same answers. As we began to recognize
the pattern, we started using the delete key to avoid threads that we
already felt were beat to death. But we know that there are new people
on the list that benefit from that rehash of old topics.
Some people who didn't see anything new in a long time dropped off the
list probably because of boredom rather than impatience of dealing with
non relative topics.
In my very humble opinion, these lists would be very boring if there was
only straight laced tech talk and no camaraderie between the members of
the list. I look at the thing as a form of "Virtual Club" in which we
share all information, technical and otherwise. As long as it doesn't
go overboard, I appreciate a bit of banter. Life is too short!
Regards,
Joe Curry
P.S. That is just what Mark needs... another list to maintain!
Ken Gano wrote:
>
> Henry raises some serious questions. As the arse who first suggested an
> exchange of biographies, I feel justified in throwing out my $0.02. I tend
> to agree with his suggestion that we might approach Mark about another list
> serve. One could be Triumphs technical, the other Triumphs friends.
> Nothing would keep a person from subscribing to both, but we would continue
> to discourage cross posting. It was in that vein that Bios started. We
> were exchanging pleasantries among those of us who get mail at work.
>
> We all get way to much e-mail. When I started on this list I looked to it
> as a source of information. Also at that time it would run 30 to 40
> messages a day. Now I'm sure we average twice that. Then, every word was
> read, now, it's a lot of triage delete. After a long time reading this
> list, I guess I am a lot less interested in thrust washers, Miatas, and POR
> 15 and a lot more interested in who's out there. It seems to have something
> to do with getting farther along in my own project, having met a few of you
> and having been uniformly impressed and generally having read it before. I
> suppose I will always use this list (until I'm ran off with a gun!) when
> there are specific questions, but without specific questions, it's been kind
> of fun read so many peoples short stories. As an aside, almost a quarter of
> the list responded. I thought that high. Seems everyone likes to talk
> about themselves. So far the only consistent has been Triumph and computer
> ownership.
>
> Now it's my turn to put on the Nomex and shut up for a while.
>
> Ken Gano
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