Wow it's been 7 years sense Rick left us. Wish he could see that it's still going strong. Thanks John and everyone else.
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for keeping things going John. It's good to see new members. > > Kurt McCullum > > > On Thu, May 3, 2018, at 12:40 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > Lots of new subscribers lately. Welcome to all! > > As of today we have exactly 400 members :-) Which is about 100 more than > the Facebook group which is saying something in this era of whiz bang web > apps. I think it says we're old and resistant to change ;-) > > We endeavor to maintain a friendly list... positive helpful attitudes to > questions of all sorts. We're here to help each other out as Model T'ers > and have a friendly place for (generally) on-topic socialization. > > Only hard and fast rules are no swearing, and no tangents into off topic > politics and stuff like that. The general goal is keep the signal to noise > ratio up. > > One other thing is skill levels. Every once in a while the list geeks out > with programming and engineering talk. I know that can seem like a foreign > language and fly over many users heads. If you're in that crowd, you're not > alone. It comes and goes and it's overall a good thing. We're a small > community so balkanizaton / too much division into other lists and forums > is a net negative in my opinion. > > I do recommend a threaded mail reader. If you find a threat that is going > to far into the weeds, and it's grouped as a thread you can decide how much > to follow it. > > For those who are simply users who love these machines with no or minimal > interest in writing code or low level stuff, please don't let the propeller > head stuff intimidate you! Jump in any time with whatever is on your mind. > > This community is by you, and here for you. > > -= Model T's Forever =- > > -- John. > > > > -- *"I will never in my lifetime make a film that cannot be seen by the whole family"* Arther P. Jacobs
