Henry raises some serious questions. As the arse who first suggested an
exchange of biographies, I feel justified in throwing out my $0.02. I tend
to agree with his suggestion that we might approach Mark about another list
serve. One could be Triumphs technical, the other Triumphs friends.
Nothing would keep a person from subscribing to both, but we would continue
to discourage cross posting. It was in that vein that Bios started. We
were exchanging pleasantries among those of us who get mail at work.
We all get way to much e-mail. When I started on this list I looked to it
as a source of information. Also at that time it would run 30 to 40
messages a day. Now I'm sure we average twice that. Then, every word was
read, now, it's a lot of triage delete. After a long time reading this
list, I guess I am a lot less interested in thrust washers, Miatas, and POR
15 and a lot more interested in who's out there. It seems to have something
to do with getting farther along in my own project, having met a few of you
and having been uniformly impressed and generally having read it before. I
suppose I will always use this list (until I'm ran off with a gun!) when
there are specific questions, but without specific questions, it's been kind
of fun read so many peoples short stories. As an aside, almost a quarter of
the list responded. I thought that high. Seems everyone likes to talk
about themselves. So far the only consistent has been Triumph and computer
ownership.
Now it's my turn to put on the Nomex and shut up for a while.
Ken Gano
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