> 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
What I'm saying with it is, I'm fed up with the censorship, tracking surveillance, and propaganda of the "tech giants" that control the WWW and am going back to textfiles and BBSes as far as is practical. ;) On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:40 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. > > >
