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An Experiment

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: An Experiment
From: Mark J Bradakis <mjb@autox.team.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 01:00:08 -0700 (MST)
The following was just sent to the spridgets@autox.team.net list, I thought
there might be some folks here who could possibly have an interest.

mjb.
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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:40:54 -0700 (MST)
From: Mark J Bradakis <mjb@autox.team.net>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: An Experiment

>    Enough with the cat chocks, sheetrock and invisible messages.

Let's see, over 1700 messages to spridgets@autox.team.net during January
so far, 28 days.  That's roughly 60 messages a day.  I wonder how many of
those messages actually had content that was worth the effort it takes to
propagate them around the world?

At one time, I did set up a list in an attempt to steer some of the
off topic drivel away from the marque and model specific lists, but that
hasn't amounted to much yet -  http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo/the-local

Since this is such a vociferous list, it might be a good place to try out
another tactic to provide those interested in discussing Sprites and Midgets
a place to axtually discuss Sprites and Midgets.  The info file for the new
list is included below.  We'll see how it goes.

mjb.
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