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I would have to think so, Don. Therefore perhaps we should accept
ourselves as a group of friends or acquaintances who have first of all
an interest in southwestern Pennsylvania and second an overall interest
in electric railways. Using that concept, we could really post anything
to the site that we think might interest most of us, and the disinterested
can delete it. We wouldn't need content police. Those who are
not interested can used the delete key. Perhaps the really point
we need is correct subject lines so we know what to delete without reading...
<p>I will admit that there are other lists. Rather than attach myself
to them, I really like this gang and could appreciate just a tad more freedom.
<p>However ... <b>AND THIS IS FOR D#1 ... </b>I would particularly like
to see an address file developed for people who have an abiding interest
in traction outside the United States, Canada, and Mexico. I average
one trip a year to Europe (this year it has been two aggregating 33 days).
I would truly like a place to go to comment on and receive the comments
of others on tramway museums in Russia, new developments in Melbourne,
the new European light railways (I can think of several Karlsruhe extensions,
one in Saarbrucken, two new French cities, one expanded French system,
one expanded English system, and two all new British properties, all in
the last twelve months). While I read Modern Tramways (or whatever
it is we call it this year), it would be nice to have a group of
friends around the world where I can go to ask for a list of the most artistic
photo locations in Berlin, or for answers to technical questions on the
new 15,000 volt AC / 750 volt DC cars running in Karlsruhe and Saarbrucken,
or for comments about day tickets in Manchester, England, or perhaps for
the name of whoever might be able to give an official behind the scenes
tour on the Isle of Man, or how to get the most interesting riding in one
eight hour day on the London Underground. I can think of a group
of people who we might like to solicit: Jack May, Phil Craig, Russ
Jackson, Fred Schneider, Harold Geissenheimer, Mike Taplin, John Bromley,
Bill Vigrass ... I'm sure there are a lot more.
<p>Now is this going to get shot off the flag pole?
<p>Donald Galt wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>On 30 Sep 00, at 10:10, Fred W. Schneider III wrote:
<p>> I suspect, Derrick, that if you start a new address file for
<br>> comments other than Pittsburgh Railways, that almost all of us
<br>> will be in that one two ... maybe even all of us.
<p>That's the case with the other list pair that I mentioned. The memberships
differ by maybe two or three names out of eighty or ninety. So you end
up with cross postings as people try to inform everybody, and confusion
as to what constitutes news and what is chat, and threads that bat between
the one and the other as they evolve. Hardly an improvement, I'd say!
<p>When it comes to lists, fewer is better.
<p>Don</blockquote>
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