[Shotimes] Sad, really????

[Michael S Wojton]

I know!!  I'm sorry it ended.  This was the most fun I've had in a while.
And that's saying something!


Mike Wojton
'95 MTX
Toledo, Ohio
shomike@tri-statesho-svt.org

K&N sans silencer cone
SHO Shop Y-pipe

"Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan

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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:43:42 -0800
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
From: Josh.Salaets[jsalaets]@msn.com
Sender: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Sad, really????

No, I think this whole discussion is HILARIOUS!!!!  Talk about blowing
something out of proportion!

You guys kill me! : )

Josh Salaets
95 SHO MTX (I SHO U)
85 Omni GLH-T (Yeah, it's fast)
Eugene, OR

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: "David P" <jpotter8@bellsouth.net>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Sad, really


> David, I was being kind......
>
> Look at your response, WAY too f**ckin' long for the topic at hand. Other
> folks have also been kind in their responses, but you obviously have WAY
too
> much time on your hands.
>
> Frankly, I rarely read beyond the first line or two of your posts. They
give
> me no valid info. Please try and limit your responses to a few lines, the
> information may then be relevant to most folks.
>
> I know that you will jump on my shit for this post, but that's OK, I'll
take
> the flack for the bulk of folks that feel that you waste too much
bandwidth
> anyway.
>
> Get to the point in your responses. You may have something worthwhile to
> say, but I will not wade through all of the excess verbiage (as in the
> response below) to get to it.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David P [mailto:jpotter8@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:53 PM
> To: Ron Porter; shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Sad, really
>
>
> I knew someone would have to step up to enforce THEIR idea of how others
> should deal with problems.
>
> I'm glad you can blow through 600-1000 messages quickly, Ron. You wanna
come
> blow through my messages for me? No? Then feel free to sit back down.
While
> you're at it, feel free to listen when someone else is talking. I said I
> didn't care about some OT banter. SOME OT banter. Not the constant,
> on-going, never ending banter of those people that seem to have no life
> outside of talking about nothing on a topic-specific list. If you weren't
so
> busy scolding me for being tired of hunting through crap, maybe you'd
notice
> the SHO questions that get posed but no one bother to responds to because
> it's such an easy and oft-seen problem, not even to say no one has an idea
> and maybe they should check the FAQ. This is supposed to be a source of
> information for SHOwners, both old and new, not your personal Tavern in
> which you can smoke all the cigars you want and verbally abuse the
> waitresses. Don't talk to me like I haven't been on this list for years,
and
> don't tell me what to do, or I might just tell you what I think YOU ought
to
> do.
>
> WTF does the length of an On-Topic post have to do with Off-Topic? Sure, I
> can ramble, and I do it ON TOPIC. I never said I had a problem with that.
> Hell, I read MOST of the long posts here that are on topic. I even read
most
> of your posts. It's the 15 messages about suspension tweaks for Neons and
> the lack of a Facist party on the ballot that is the problem.
>
> You didn't have to do a damn thing but sit there. I was leaving, and was
not
> enforcing anything upon you. You could have hit YOUR delete key. No, you
had
> to step it up a notch. Amazing.
>
> David P
>
> 95MTX
>
>
>
> ~
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
> To: "David P" <jpotter8@bellsouth.net>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 14:08
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Sad, really
>
>
> > Have you heard of the DELETE key??
> >
> > Frankly, I find this to be a lame excuse. I travel for business, and I
> will
> > come home and find 600-1000 messages from the various SHO lists. I can
> blow
> > through them rather quickly for topics I have no interest in.
> >
> > This list (SHOtimes) acts as a tavern list much of the time, which is
fine
> > with me. If all topics were strictly on SHO topics it would (1) be
rather
> > boring, and (2) would only be a few messages a day, as there isn't much
> new
> > to talk about.
> >
> > You are the one who comes up with long posts for simple questions. Chill
> > out.
> >
> > quitcherbitchin.
> >
> > Ron Porter
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> > [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of David P
> > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:34 PM
> > To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> > Subject: [Shotimes] Sad, really
> >
> >
> > I have really enjoyed the SHOtimes mailing list over the last few years,
> but
> > off topic discussion has become too much of a problem for me. I don't
mind
> a
> > little banter among friends, but this is a rather large group of
friends,
> > and
> > the banter is nowhere near "little". Too many people are double-sending
> > message, cross-posting to TechSHO, and holding long, drawn-out
> conversations
> > that don't pertain to SHOs or our relationships. I've never cared that
> > someone
> > asks about different cars, but the conversations go on for weeks, and
> > another
> > 100 messages are added because of it. On every other list I subscribe
to,
> > the
> > same thing happens, except the responders talk off-list to keep from
> > flooding
> > everyone else with unnecessary emails. I have not seen the list owner
> > keeping
> > after this, so I assume it is considered acceptable now. Unfortunately,
I
> no
> > longer have the interest to constantly keep after my filters (so few
> people
> > here put OT in the subject line). 40% of messages being OT on a daily
> basis
> > is
> > unreal and unbearable for a list of this size. I am unsubscribing from
> > SHOtimes. Anyone that wants a good, SHO-related discussion can find me
on
> > TechSHO as long as the OT cross-posting is kept to a minimum.
> >
> > Which reminds me: TechSHO was opened to allow for SHO-only discussion.
Why
> > are
> > we getting OT cross-posting? I won't name any names, but I received FOUR
> of
> > the same OT message, from the same person. They posted twice (for
> > insurance?),
> > and posted to both SHOtimes and TechSHO, so I got four emails. That is
> nuts.
> > Nuts seems to be the norm lately. I'm not a squirrel.
> >
> >
> >
> > David P
> >
> > 95MTX
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