Hi Boris, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:22:29 +0200, Boris Liberman wrote:
> Well, since you ask in public, I am going to answer in public. Sorry about that. I intended to send that direct to you instead of the list, and I didn't realize I had fouled up until I saw my post come back from the PDML. :-( > I am afraid you were subject to a practical joke or rather sick > sense of humor. Well, I sort of thought that, but the source of the comment was someone who should know. It was also someone with a very strange sense of humor, though, so I was suspicious. :-) > I hope next time you'd be more critical to what you hear about > Soviet engineering... I apologize for being insulting. That _really_ was not my intention, but I did a bad job communicating. And, honestly, I've heard of stranger things that were true, too. One example would be the German "Tiger" tank [Pzkw VI(e)] from WW2 ... a wonderful solution to part of the problem (armor and gunnery), it was mechanically unreliable. One part of that was it had a very touchy fuel system, to the point that a bunch of them leaked fuel in the engine compartment. That wouldn't be so bad if it ran on diesel, but it ran on gasoline. Personally, I don't want gasoline fumes wafting around inside my tank. :-) TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
