[MOSFET]

I know EXACTLY who you are refferring to. You know, he tried to sell my car
once (I kid you not, if you've been on this group for a several years you
might remember this), by getting many of the details about my car from
Cardomain and then listing it on an on-line car sales site (this was after a
particularly nasty flame exchange). The ONLY reason I found out about it is
because I started getting these strange Emails asking details (miliage,
condition, price offers, and so on) about my car. Naturally I reported this
(and all supporting evidence, which wasn't hard as the on-line car sales
site had the evidence of who had listed it) to his IP and then he
MYSTERIOUSLY disapeared for three months, hmmmm.......

But in the interest of not starting yet ANOTHER flame war, I will not name
names, but if you are reading this, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

You know, I truly and sincerely HOPE this group didn't die because of flame
throwers. However, I have had enough knock down, drag out flame wars with
these guys that your theory could very well be true. And it always seemed
like our flame wars revolved around, or boiled down to, the notion that the
only way to keep this group alive and healthy is to NOT scare away the
noobs.

And the quickest way to scare away the noobs is for them to come to this
group and find about six flame wars in full swing with the natural gas
turned up to the max.

I mean, geez, would I want to post anythign here if I were a noob? Hell,
no! I would go find my answer somewhere else. There were certainly times
this group should have been called "rec.flame-wars.car".

I REALLY hope that's not the reason for the apparent death of this group,
but I fear you may be on to something.

I always hoped this would be a friendly, inviting collection of folks who
shared a passion for car audio and a TRUE desire to help people, always
willing to offer good advice to anyone who asked, no matter how simple or
repetitious the question seemed to be.

I am only one person put, for what it's worth, at least I will try to live
up to this creed.

MOSFET


"Helen Weed" wrote in message
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MOSFET wrote:
Come on guys! This not the RAC I knew and loved 15 years ago.
...
Anyway, I felt like ranting. Hell, nothing else was happening, right?

Anyway, it's a little sad. I saw it happening 10 years ago with the
death of IASCA. I knew even WAY BACK THEN times, they were a changin'.

MOSFET
Ian D. Bjorhovde

It could be that there are so many egocentric individuals here, ready to
pounce on people and ridicule them for asking questions that might seem
silly to some. People that think they know everything and seem to just
live for the opportunity to laugh at others.

So, Ian, have any idea WHO I might be referring to?