Re: Re: IML: The end of the OIC - No, False Alarm

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Kenyon, I saw it as a joke. You do a great job and have alot of responsibility that goes along with it -Anthony

>From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
>Date: 2007/11/03 Sat AM 01:26:05 CDT
>To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: IML: The end of the OIC - No, False Alarm

>--- MoparJackie@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I hope this is a joke.Right?
>
>
>If you read your emails all the way to the bottom or
>aren't skipping mine it is.
>
>
>
>
>Sorry.  I got cranky earlier and zinged someone for
>asking a question that I've been typing the answer to
>for about 7 years now, and it really wasn't nice of me
>to do that, so here's my public apology for that
>public comment:  I'm sorry I got snippy.
>
>
>Here's why that happened:
>
>1.  We have 500-700 people here at any given time.  As
>I understand it, the number seems to hover pretty
>consistently at 600 or so.
>
>2.  We have a website that is monstorous and to die
>for if you own an old car that happens to be the right
>one for this place.  I've been trying to point it out
>to folks for some time now, but it seems like there is
>at least one question per month from a well seasoned,
>"been here awhile" sort of person that just totally
>bypasses it, reading as if we're into Crosleys or
>Hupmobiles with no support besides the typed emails
>here.
>
>If you're deleting my posts (then you're not reading
>this one either...hey, it's a free country!), you
>might not see this between my lines, but my thing is
>that if you're new to the place, you're obviously
>going to not know as much as someone that's been
>around and should be cut some serious slack until
>you're up to speed, and I'm really OK with that.
>
>BUT: when you've been around and your email/name
>starts to get familiar after months or years, I would
>personally like to give you the benefit of the doubt
>that you're having an in-body experience and are
>hopefully reading at least "some" of the messages that
>I send out explaining the things that we're doing on
>the website.
>
>Everyone has a hobby, mine is working on my cars and
>also volunteering (along with many others) to do work
>on the club resources.
>
>Soooooo, when someone wrote in earlier asking if it
>was possible to post photos of their car to the
>website (it is), I rolled my eyes, thought about the
>collective 1:45 minutes I've spent writing messages
>about that topic over the years, and shot from the
>hip, explaining that no, we don't do that and are
>actually converting to an all Lincoln-Mercury Format.
>
>
>Ever notice that online humor really works better with
>photos and images than words?  Well, I want to stop
>here before someone starts seriously sending photos of
>the Lincoln in the back yard, because nothing's really
>changed.
>
>
>
>I've been meaning to write in and go over some of the
>basics (and maybe not so basics) of the website as a
>reminder/introduction to what we're up to, so I guess
>that perhaps I should do that as pennance?
>
>The bottom line is that we are all united in a common
>interest, and the club exists to serve people's needs.
>
>I'll start fresh on a new message and get into that.
>
>For the person that wrote in earlier, I'd like to
>offer a free lifetime membership here and hope that
>there are no hard feelings.
>
>
>-Kenyon
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