[Healeys] What I hate about this list...

Chris Dimmock austin.healey at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 00:08:39 MDT 2010


The largest capacity BMC a series engine used in Austin Healey Sprites.
948cc; 1098cc and 1275cc

Mark could have instigated a variable pricing regime....
100 owners pay $26.60
100/6 owners pay $26.39
3000 owners pay $29.12
;-)
Chris

Sent from my iPhone

On 20/09/2010, at 2:46 PM, I Erbs <eyera3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hope this gets through the limit filter
> LOL
> That screed alone was worth the 12.50 alone. How did you arrive at  
> that figure?
>
> I Erbs
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> It's nice that a few folks like this list, as well as some of the  
>> other
>> 5 dozen or so offered at Team.Net.  But boy, one thing I hate is that
>> list admin!  When he isn't whining about some list management  
>> details,
>> he's begging for beer money.  Sure, he *says* it goes to pay the  
>> monthly
>> out of pocket expenses and the occasional hardware upgrade, but who
>> really knows?
>>
>> And some of the list rules, sheesh!  Like the message size limit -  
>> what's
>> up with that?  It isn't like including the entire original message  
>> in a
>> reply is going to waste bandwidth, or cause the archive search  
>> engine to
>> work harder going through stuff that has already been seen.  And so  
>> what
>> if other list members get bounced off because the extra verbiage puts
>> them over quota.  Adding the entire original message may propagate  
>> the
>> footer line with individualized links to subscriber's profiles, but
>> no bad guys are going to waste their time sending out bogus  
>> unsubscribe,
>> password changes or other such cruft just to be annoying.
>>
>> Who looks at that unsubscribe/manage link anyway?  If you want to get
>> off the list sending a message to the entire list should be  
>> sufficient,
>> no need to follow some simple link and pass up a chance to pester  
>> that
>> clueless admin.  He must be pretty new at this, it is obvious he has
>> no idea what he's doing.
>>
>> mjb.
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