[V8] Internet cowards

[Roger M. Woodbury]

Superdave said: “I'm looking for a V8 dialog, sometimes I'm  looking for help, or share my Audi V8 experiences or Passion.  So let's get back to V8 dialog and less opinions.”

Well, exactly, or almost.  Tom, you may have been in a pissy mood, but your post was way over the top and unnecessary.  I read it, and have read virtually every post from you, Scott, and a whole lot of other listers here for a long time now.  In fact I have been reading posts on this list for more years than on ANY Porsche list that exists and it was the Porsche lists that got me started doing this at all.  (Too many Porsche guys are assholes.).

I think the one line that should not be crossed on this list or any other social networking or information networking site is the personal one with diverse and irrelevant rhetoric designed only to wound another lister.  

It’s pointless after all, and something else:  the Internet is a great medium for meeting new people and an unbeatable way to do research and to learn about things of interest, the vital as well as the trivial.  It is also a great smoke screen.  It is possible to say something to another person on the Internet that one would never imagine saying face to face.  Tom’s post was over the top and would never have been said that way face to face. Such Internet combat is mere cowardice and unworthy of Tom or anyone else I have met on this list or most others I have subscribed to.  In person such utterances could be highly dangerous. Probably Tom doesn’t know if Scott is a six foot five inch heap of muscled mastery of five black belts in oriental martial arts that no one in the western world can pronounce.  Tom’s post, were it made in person might have resulted in him being put upside down into a garbage can and kicked unceremoniously a long way down a long hill.

Let’s not go the way of those Porsche vroom-vroom wannabes who freely sling barbs in their semi-literate grumbles sounding like so many ignorant little pubescent thugs on a forth rate junior high school play ground.  

>From what I have heard and read here and elsewhere, it appears Audi’s V8 Quattro is slowly but steadily gaining ground as a cult car.  That and ten cents will get you about one sip of Dunkin’ and it won’t run the car OR the country. But it is neat to drive an interesting car that at least some people appreciate, and perhaps, a whole lot of others can’t identify.  Especially when that car can run so well, and do so well in all kinds of weather.  This list imparts a lot of information from a lot of people who have a wide variety of information about the car, and it is all for free...or mostly so.  Let’s not sully the value of the list by spasms of Internet cowardice.  

Whether Tom was right or wrong, I have no idea.  But I do know Tom doesn’t want his mailbox to be flooded with white envelopes containing epitheted bumper stickers for his car.  For that matter, I doubt that Tom would want his maibox flooded with rainbow envelopes either.

Roger