no hands clapping; head in hands?(come back Phil!)

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <v04003a02b1bff7dde5ad@[10.1.1.5]> Brett Dikeman writes:

> We just like to tease you about
> how often you're fixing your UrQ and about the fische reader in the
> "boot"(is that a 12v reader?  They make 'em!  I immediately thought of you
> when I saw one in a catalog.)

It's triple voltage - 12v/220v/110v.  I could even use it in the
colonies.  I wasn't aware that they are still being made - was the one
you saw for the 7" by 9 1/2" fiche that Audi use?

> I will also agree with Phil that the whole torsen thing has gotten WAY out
> of hand; the immature little arguement has gone on for months(since late
> January?) and has evolved into a mix of personal flames cc'd to the list
> and something I would expect to hear on a playground of
> grade-schoolers..."Did not" "Did too" "Did not" "Did too."  Everyone else
> on the list is VERY tired of hearing about it.

I wasn't aware that Dan had posted a request to drop it, or I wouldn't
have responded at all.

I don't mind the "did"/"did not" aspect of it, but it's the slime and
insinuation that greets any post disagreeing with the pro-Torsen lobby.
We're repeatedly regarded as either stupid or malfeasant.  I sit here
absolutely staggered, time and again, by someone six thousand miles
away telling me that I can't have experienced what I _have_ experienced
and then proceeding to draw conclusions about my mental state.

Anyway, I shall now accede to Dan's request.

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