I guess one size does not fit all . . . ?
Robert D.
-----Original Message-----
From busyrider at springmail.com <busyrider@springmail.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: February 6, 2001 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: wasting band width? (fwd)
>I am forwarding this to the list with permission of the sender.
>
>This is an example of what happens as a result of the abuse of the list as
I described.
>
>Fred Criswell
>
>
> -------- Forwarded message --------
>Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:59:25 -0500
>From: busyrider@springmail.com
>Reply-to: trev9@earthlink.net
>To: busyrider@springmail.com
>Subject: Re: wasting band width?
>
>I agree! I just joined this group two days ago and today canceling.
>Too much BS cluttering my email. Too bad.
>R. Rogers, Brooksville, FL
>
>> I will retreat slightly from my originally posted opinion and say that
>> I agree that there is benefit to listers from some of the off-topic
>> discussions. This would include travel and trip advice, help with
>> another type of car, etc.
>>
>> But the type of chat room exchanges like the one started below don't
>> benefit the list AT ALL.
>>
>> Six or ten people will criticise me for this and that will prove my
point.
>> A handful of subscribers are the only ones interested in this chatter.
>>
>> To put it nicely, it would be more appropriate if the handful of you
>> just emailed each other privately like most people do with jokes and
such.
>>
>> I have been at cars shows and heard negative comments about the Spridget
>> list mostly along the lines that its a waste of time and subscribers use
it
>> mostly to chat about things unrelated to Spridgets. With comments like
that
>> going around, many people don't even subscribe.
>>
>> If you don't like those last comments, don't get mad at me, I didn't
>> say it, it's what I heard. This would be a better list if it had a
>> better reputation. Instead a few spoil it for the majority.
>>
>> Fred Criswell
>>
>> > chuck
>> > still the world's largest sprite driver.
>> > this should stirr up some creative waste of band width to help out .
>>
>> After some e-mail with Chuck, I have decided I'm the second largest
>> Spridgeteer, but believe me, there's LOTS of room between first and
second
>> place! Right, Chuck?
>>
>> Maybe we should change this thread to "waisting" band width? ;-)
>>
>> Chris Eck*
>>
>> [This message delayed, as it needed manual intervention by the list
>> administrator. mjb.]
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