[AT] Subject line now changed :-) NOW: Orange Puters & Mechanics

[KG Waugh]

That was a GOOD thread, never got out orf hand IMO.

Gene

charliehill wrote:
> I will and did apologize for not changing the subject but I will NOT 
> apolgize for the OT.  3 or 4 days ago folks were complaining because there 
> was no traffic on the list.
> This list used to generate over 100 messages a day.  Then folks got to 
> complaining and folks stopped posting.  I'm not aiming this at anyone so 
> please no one take offense.
> I've said this a number of times before and I'll say it once more.  I try to 
> contribute some useful content to this list from time to time but I'm not 
> going to keep checking in if there is nothing to read.  Think of this list 
> like a place of business or a library or a charity.  When there is business 
> to do the folks take care of business.  When there is nothing going on they 
> don't sit around and talk about work.  They talk about what is going on in 
> their lives.
>
> Farmer, Spencer gave you some good advice and I've followed that same plan 
> myself before.  If someone has a question to ask about an Allis Chalmers 
> tractor or any other piece of old iron then ask it and I'll try to provide 
> some well intended, well thought out and useful information.  Otherwise I 
> intend to chat with my friends.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:26 AM
> Subject: [AT] Subject line now changed :-)
>
>
>   
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> And I, for one, cannot change message subject lines.  I use Google's
>>> Gmail, and when you hit "reply" it gives no subject field,
>>> automatically forcing use of the existing subject line (a "feature"
>>> which I never even noticed until just now!).  But I apologize for what
>>> was viewed by some as a pissing contest.  To me it was just a lively
>>> discussion and not TERRIBLY off-topic; at least we're still talking
>>> about stuff with pistons and valves and gears and things.  And it did
>>> start squarely with a tractor reference although it was a modern, not
>>> antique.
>>>
>>> SO
>>>       
>> ==============================
>>
>>
>>
>> And it is not like we were being flooded with messages...  :-)
>> Not every simple difference of opinion is automatically a pissing contest.
>> I just like seeing messages arriving. Many of my best friends are on
>> this list and sadly too far away to visit in person freely. If every
>> message was exactly on topic we probably would not have even formed
>> those friendships.
>> Spencer long ago gave us all some very good advice which I regularly
>> quote to members of the dozen public list I own. He just said that if
>> we didn't like the topic that was being discussed that we should
>> introduce a topic that we want to discuss and if the group is
>> interested then the conversation will steer that direction.
>> -
>> Some of us mellow as we age and some of us just get rancid.   ;-)
>> There is a reason for the phrase "Grumpy old men".   :-)
>> Smile everybody, spring is coming.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "farmer"
>>
>> "Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
>> Morris Moulterd
>>
>>
>> Hay and Straw Exchange (Buy it, sell it and trade it.)
>> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HayandStrawExchange
>>
>>
>> Francis Robinson
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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