Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari Content - Please

[LarryT (l02turner]

Howdy -
    I think John has made a excellent point when he says <<the list seems 
to have exhausted itself in Ferrari content >>
and I believe it is happening in other specality lists also.  The Porsche 
list which has a very large membership somedays only has 1, 2 or 3 posts 
while other days there will be 20.  As John says, most of the technical 
issues have been talked about time and again, oil threads have run their 
course although new stuff happens all the time, and members talking about 
the classic Ferraris such as pre '74 have such few hands-on owners active on 
this list that talking about them is limited to info we gathered from 
reading.   Not that that's a bad thing but I don't think many are interested 
in doing that.

   The 3X8's have the largest population I believe and every technical 
aspect about them has been discussed numerous times.   While there may be 
some owners of very exotic models their numbers are very small making 
threads difficult.

   Maybe these lists are meant to have a finite lifespan?  They've been 
active for 10+ years after all, which in the world of anything associated 
with computers is a very long time.  It's a bit like getting a new coffee 
table book about our favorite marque - when new we read it and look at the 
photos until we have absorbed all the info that's there,then we leave on the 
table or bookshelf only referring to it once in a while.  This is afterall a 
resource about Ferrari's unless we accept that it's a social discussion 
thing and allow OT threads to run their course.   *Then* the lifespan is 
extended almost indefinately IMHO, assuming new people are dragged in as 
members once in a while.

   As far as Algore is concerned - he's made a fortune talking about global 
warming - I wonder why he didn't make it a cause du 'jour during his 8 years 
in office?  I know the VP position doesn't always mean a 1st class audience, 
but it *is* a pretty high position which often leads to the presidency.  I 
will admit whenever he opens his mouth I close my ears - same for Clinton - 
once I understood he lied when he spoke I stopped listening - so perhaps he 
*was* making his claims of GW and I just didn't hear?

BTW, there was a Russian weather study released early this week that 
indicated a cooling trend was on the way.  There's a lot of people with 
millions of $$'s at risk who will fight hard to discredit that bit of info.

Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JAshburne [at] aol.com>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Ferrari Content - Please


> Not trying to start a political war here, but let's be realistic, does
> anyone really believe that algore is not far left in his politics?  Sure, 
> if one
> is leftist leaning themselves, one might agree with his views, but
> realistically, the only viable political figure these days more left than 
> he is  Hugo
> Chavez.  Not that there is anything wrong with being a leftist (even 
> though my
> views are 180 degrees opposed), but do not deny that leftist is what  he 
> is.
>
> John
>
> PS  Having been on this list for 11 years, I feel that I am safe in 
> saying
> that an opinion about algore is NOT what caused Bighead to leave.   It is 
> more
> the fact that the list seems to have exhausted itself in Ferrari  content 
> and
> the core posters feel comfortable in commenting on other aspects of  life, 
> not
> just "Oh, I just drove my Ferrari today!" or "What should I look for  in
> buying a 328?"  As burning as those issues might be to someone new to  the 
> Ferrari
> experience, there are gigabytes of information and expressions about 
> those
> topics posted in many different places on the web and to many the 
> repetition
> of those topics here is just as boring as yet another gabfest about 
> watches,
> guns or whatnot.  The inbox might be almost empty of FList posts  for 
> weeks and
> then someone will ignite a thread about a NFC topic and everyone  comes to
> life and the list is filled with a hundred posts in two days.
>
> I, too, would like more direct Ferrari content, but let's face it, we
> already have so much more information about Ferraris available to us that 
> can be
> accessed via a good search, it really reduces the need to repeat it on the
> FList.  On the other hand, this core group of people have a common love 
> for
> Ferraris but also realize that the friendships that have been formed here 
> are  much
> deeper and more complex than that single hobby.  To me, that is a much 
> more
> fulfilling kinship, but that is just MHO.
>
> John
>
>
>
> In a message dated 1/17/2008 3:06:17 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com writes:
>
> Judging  by the Ultra-Right-Wing Nutjob rants that have clogged my
> inbox, NO ONE....
>
>
> One more VALUABLE member has  left.  No biggie - he's only the MA
> Chapter President of  the Ferrari Club of America.....oh, sure, we can
> afford to  lose those people...lets worry about what Al Gore is doing
> this week....ass-clowns....
>
>
> --- On Thu, 1/17/08,  cdatte [at] spawar.navy.mil <cdatte [at] 
> spawar.navy.mil>
> wrote:
>
> From: cdatte [at] spawar.navy.mil  <cdatte [at] spawar.navy.mil>
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari]  Ferrari Content - Please
> To: "Michael"  <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "The  FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Date:  Thursday, January 17, 2008, 11:55 AM
> wonder who mediates this forum ?
> At  07:48 AM 1/17/2008, Mauricio Mesa wrote:
> > Could we get some Ferrari  content back on this list?
> > Politics and other like issues are  irrelevant.  How
> > about them 308s,328s, Mondials, Testarossas,  etc?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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