F the jacket-talk

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.961022094750.9576A-100000@indy3> Mann Law writes:

> 	Since I have been on this list I have come to know and talk to 
> several listers who sell upgrades for our cars---but when was the last 
> time you saw STEDIRIC spamming for sales, or PDQSHIP spamming for sales, 
> or Bob D'Amato spamming the list for rotor sales?  You haven't.  That is 
> what private e-mail is for.  All due respect, but let's drop it, ok ?

I'm a supplier too - to the IBM mainframe world.  I'm a member of the IBM 
mainframe mailing list - on which I, too, have never touted for business.

Quattros are _not_ my business.  They're my hobby.  All this jacket business is 
_costing_ me money in email, phone calls, faxes and time - none of which I 
charge to the Club.  Organising regalia is a club activity - none of us is big 
enough to do it on our own, just as none of us can organise a day at Audi Sport 
on our own, or a track day at Castle Combe, or a meeting with the International 
Sport Club, or an itinerary for a visting quattro enthusiast.  That's what 
clubs are for.

That's _all_ it is.  No one, certainly not me, almost certainly not the UK Club 
and in all probability not the manufacturer is making a red cent on this deal.  
It's a club activity, or at least I saw it as such.  I, also, see loads and 
loads of posts about non-quattro Audis, NASCAR, BMWs, Kanc, and the like.  Some 
bore me witless.



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 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club