<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV> <FONT size=3><STRONG>  </STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3><STRONG>    List-- </STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3><STRONG>   Just food for thought from the 356 = porsche tech list.</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3><STRONG>   Dale Erwin</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>To all,<BR><BR>In the past couple of months, 3= 56talk has begun to again drift into <BR>somewhat of a chat line. By that I = mean posts appear on the list that are <BR>not directly or indirectly linked= to the issues that 356talk was formed to <BR>address.These are sometimes on= e-liners,  which even long-time stalwart <BR>contributors to the list s= ometimes post, that have no purpose other than to <BR>show the cleverness of= the poster.<BR><BR>I have copied a couple of lines from the Welcome Message= that you all got <BR>when you subscribed. They are most important so please= keep them in mind.<BR><BR>"The purpose of 356Talk is to exchange informatio= n about 356 cars.  It is a <BR>no flame list with no profanity allowed.= <BR><BR>  No politics or denigrating humor or one liners.. this is not = a 'chat' list "<BR><BR>Don't take this personally . If you have comments pro= or con send them <BR>directly to robinhansen@356registry.org and rickdill@3= 56registry.org and <BR>please don't start a thread on the issue.<BR><BR>robi= n<BR>list monitor </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>