Oh, almost forgot...I think you meant flamed, not spammed. Spam, after
all, is unwanted e-mail advertising. Flames (or flame mail) are angry,
vicious, hateful, mail designed to break the will, drive a participant off
the Internet, and home to a good book, read in the fetal position. I
personally think spam's worse...but to each his own...
Welcome aboard!
-Alfred
At 06:50 AM 12/10/97 -0500, you wrote:
>FHammett-
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>Basically, I agree, but if there were good, topical threads running, the
>personal stuff would either go away, or at least be much easier to ignore
>in favor of other content.
>
>But lacking the good topical threads, you can't blame a bunch of racing
>buddies for lying to each other until there's something important to say!
>And you never know when one of their yarns will become a good topical
>thread... happened that way with brats, after all!
>
>I think, if you want more content, some of the silent partners to this
>thing, of whom, I believe, there are many, should speak up with some new
>ideas...
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>-Alfred
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>At 10:49 PM 12/9/97 EST, you 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.
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>>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 personal
>>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.
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>>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".
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>>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.
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>>I hope I dont offend anyone. But if so, Im sure Ill hear about it. Does
>>anyone agree?
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