|
RE: New KY/TN SHO Club Forming
|
Flamingtaco
|
Dec 08, 2007 01:26 PST
|
I didn't mean permanently dead, BTW.
I believe this list is no longer popular because we are well past the era of discovery, when most of us were doing, rather than talking about having done, with our SHO's. The converational traffic tilts mostly social these days, and YG lets them do more than they could here.
There's also the shift towards younger owners in the community, who tolerate internet "issues" a lot less than those of us who grew up in the arpanet days (or earlier). When you are used to being able to contact anyone you want in any manner you choose at any time and say, do, or move anything, it's easy to see faults with older newsgroup systems that are not "full-featured".
David
-------------- Original message from Bill Strobel <theam-@yahoo.com>: --------------
| |
I'm still here. I check every so often to see if anyone still posts
here. I don't know why guys do not like this type of list.
Bill Strobel
Fayetteville, NC
1992 Ex-Police Unit White/Gray Cloth
1993 MTX White/Blk Leather All Stock!
1995 Taurus GL Wagon Deep Emerald Green/Mocha
The World's Largest SHO Library Over 75 ft.
of Ford Manuals & Related Factory Literature
Pertaining to the 1989-1999 Taurus SHO
Flamingtaco wrote:
| | And the list goes dead again...
-------------- Original message from Flaming Taco
: --------------
Not sure why we have become enamored with the ability to post
attachments, never saw much in the way of discussions on TechSHO that
required attachments, and those that did were requests for charts or
other material that were mailed directly. I specifically avoided the
yahoo group board for sometime, waiting for the "ooh look at me, I can
email pictures of my car to everyone now" factor to wear down.
Having broadband has made some of us a bit lazy, methinks. Too many
photos are not cropped or resized these days. While I can download a
10MB picture, there's no reason for me to WANT to if I'm not going to
refinish it and generate printable files. According to several web
design sites that popped up in google, 1024x768 held about 70% of the
market in 2006. Doubt it's changed a lot in the past two years.
I still subscribe to several Topica lists that have solid traffic. I
haven't dropped TechSHO yet because I know some of the more experienced
owners still subscribe. When I've got a really technical issue to
resolve, I'd rather post to TechSHO and wait 3-4 days for a reply, than
walk through five messages where the question was not understood, five
messages explaining that the message was misunderstood, three messages
that explain that the three of the correcting posters also
misunderstood, four messages that are completely off-topic, seven more
that are off-topic and directed at those replying to me, two that are to
me but regard other issues, one that explains that I'd get a better
answer if I'd check with so-and-so over at such-and-such, and two
dumping on so-and-so's character, and telling some poor defender to shut
up.
An exaggeration, sure, but it's funny as hell, no?
Oh, yeah, I'm still here, and still in Ky.
David
-------------- Original message from Ron Porter
: --------------
| |
Same here. I use the Outlook Calendar for all of my scheduling and
synching with
my PDA, and I have multiple Contact lists that are very useful.
Ron Porter
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Fisher [mailto:dataf-@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:46 PM
To: Tech-@topica.com
Subject: Re: New KY/TN SHO Club Forming
I don't like Outlook Express but Outlook itself is a pretty good
program..
Ian
----- Original Message ----
From: Devin Fisher
To: Tech-@topica.com
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 10:34:30 AM
Subject: RE: New KY/TN SHO Club Forming
Eudora? Thunderbird?
-----Original Message-----
From: George Fourchy [mailto:kraz-@comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:40 PM
To: Tech-@topica.com
Subject: RE: New KY/TN SHO Club Forming
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Ron Porter
| |
It's because folks like me ever unsubscribed, but no longer use this
|
list.
| | Text-based lists that don't allow attachments are a quaint '90s
|
relic.
Ditto. I don't download my mail in bunches from Comcast anymore for
the
same reason....my ancient mailer program hasn't a clue what to do with
pictures.
The bad news is, even my cable modem is sometimes slow. If the posts
are
already in my computer, I don't have to fool with the internet.
|
--------------------------------
|
|
|
|
 |
|
