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Re: why membership is small in this newsgroup

To: FHammett <FHammett@aol.com>
Subject: Re: why membership is small in this newsgroup
From: Steve Hammatt <shammatt@sos.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 22:13:54 -0800
Dear F
Other than the not so subtle stealing of my good name ;-)
along with the easily seen-through attempt to disguise the
stealing by changing one simple letter. I'm wondering if all
your comments (many of which I've thought over the years have 
applied to any number of groups I've been associated with) apply
to all the groups you've copied and at this moment in time?  8O)

I understand that there were a number of Hamma(e)tt brothers that 
came from England around 1640.  Upon landing, all but one brother 
decided the family name was HammEtt, while one stubborn,
do-it-his-own-way brother thought it should be HammAtt.  Ah, so much 
for family legends.

Steve Hammatt
Mount Vernon, Washington State
(with many relatives in Mass)

FHammett wrote:
> 
> As a new subscriber (only two months) I may be out of place in this
> correspondence.  I will probably be spamed for this commentary.  But one
> reason this newsgroup tends to be boring is because some of which is here
> should be addressed not to the group, but to the individuals to whom it
> applies.   Does everyone who races vintage cars really care about "the slow
> ass red car"  ( two or three people who diced together at one race?")  The
> thread will probably go on for a month or two.
> 
> Conversations like this should take place in private Email. That is why  we
> can CC (carbon copy )other interested parties. My email allows me to respond
> to the individual who made the correspondence without sending my presonal
> comment to the entire group.    To the extent that this newsgroup becomes a
> means of private correspondence it will have less appeal for those who are not
> privy (or do not care) about the personal matters effecting only a few.
> 
> Those  who question why the same old names keep appearing on this newsletter
> now have an answer.  It is because much of what appears only effects those
> "same old names".
> 
> The threads that have common interest are a value to many of us. And it  helps
> if the Subject Column clearly describes the subject matter.  But it is a waste
> of time to access every piece of correspondence to find much of them are
> nothing more that personal correspondence between two or three people.  Maybe
> This type of correspondence should be sent by email, to the person to who it
> is addressed.
> 
> I hope I dont offend anyone. But if so, Im sure Ill hear about it.   Does
> anyone agree?
>

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