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[Steve Marinello]

Actually, Shaun, it's been real stable for quite a while.  Are you sure you
didn't send a virus along with that confirmation message?!

Welcome back!

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun D. Mullen" <smullen at UDel.Edu>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:00 AM
Subject: the list


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> This is precisely the kind of message might piss off well meaning people
> like Brett and Dan.  That is not my intention, but I cannot resist
> making an observation:
>
> I left the q-list two years ago because I was unable to handle the email
> traffic.  It took weeks to unsubscribe, apparently because of
> inadequacies in the list server software.  Dan finally had to manually
> delist me.  Kind of like rolling your old Audi Fox down a hill and
> popping it into second gear to try to start it.
>
> I rejoined the list a few days ago.  After signing onto the q-list and
> being given a confirmation number, I was further dismayed when my
> automatic e-mail reply was rejected because of an allegedly invalid
> confirmation number -- the very number I had been assigned.  Kind of
> like rolling your old Fox down a hill and popping it into second gear to
> try to start it, but it doesn't want to start and you have to push it
> back up the hill.
>
> And so after three days on the list, there already have been two
> blackouts of some duration.  Times change, but the q-list it seems to
> still be caught in old Fox limbo.  Do I really care that it is?  No,
> because the reparte and exchange of information is much more important
> than the technical gliches.  But would anyone like to explain why we're
> Foxing and not A8ing?  And is there something we can do as a group,
> whether passing the hat or whatever, to get the list out of the last
> century?
>
> -- Shaun Mullen
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