I didn’t even know there was a Facebook group, lol
> On May 3, 2018, at 3:40 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> 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. > >
