[AT] Happy New Year and state of the list address.

[Alan Nadeau]

Amen!!

Thank you, Spencer, for all that you do for us.

Happy New Year to all!

Carl, may this be the year that they find a cure for the color distortion 
problem you are going through with your eyes.  :)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert" <rholtzer at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2017 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Happy New Year and state of the list address.


> Amen.
>
> Bob Holtzer
>
>
> On 1/1/2017 6:51 AM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>> First off:  Happy New Year!  I wish nothing but health, success, and 
>> happiness for every one of you.
>>
>> This will be an important year for us. I have a huge number of list 
>> friends whom I dearly adore and enjoy being around with at shows 
>> throughout the year. I believe we have built something substantial and 
>> important here over the last 20+ years.  But we are getting older and no 
>> one younger is joining.  One of the ways we can hope to continue being 
>> relevant for younger folks is to realize we are not selling antique 
>> tractors here. We are selling a timeless sense of what is real and good 
>> about human nature, American manhood and rural communities.
>>
>> I cannot do a lot about that as list administrator, but you folks can: 
>> one way is to exercise control of some social media habits that I noticed 
>> have crept onto the list, and one of them is people making whatever 
>> statement they want and making any manner of spurious claims without any 
>> attribution, footnoting or evidence. Recently there was a post claiming 
>> the iPhone batteries were as bad as the Note 7 batteries.   I'm not 
>> defending Apple, as that is not the point of this message. But since it 
>> speaks to the context of my address and a great example of it let me just 
>> say I know a little bit about technology and the statement  is untrue in 
>> many different ways. but trying to paint Apple with the same brush and 
>> false paint simply because one don't like them is a contradiction against 
>> any sense of what's factual or real concerning the technology involved 
>> and is an example of a common social media behavior: say anything and try 
>> to get it to stick.
>>
>>
>> In short ATIS has always been a place of relevant and authoritative 
>> knowledge. I don't want that to change so I don't want people bringing 
>> really bad social media habits to the list, like fake news or 
>> unsubstantiated accusations.  That's not what we sell here. That is not 
>> the ATIS brand we all have carefully cultivated.
>>
>> May our better angels guide us in the upcoming year. I truly wish that 
>> for the list and the world - Happy New Year!
>>
>>
>> Spencer Yost
>>
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