[AT] Subject line now changed :-)

[charliehill]

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
>
>
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>
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> Central Indiana USA
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