I used to be like that when i was an active member a year and a half
ago...now i use the newsgroup. Much better. Back to the original topic
though...I tend to only respond when I have something to add or expound on.
I guess i don't want to feel bad if i accidentally give the incorect advice.
-Josh
""BARRY OLIVER"" <DHSPA58@dhs.state.il.us> wrote in message
news:sdcb7b9e.049@mail.dhs.state.il.us...
>
> The effect you are noticing is these messages falling victim to the delete
key. I have done this myself, if the subject line isn't something I know
about or want to know about, it's gone. A good example is the Dakota Drag
Truck thread.. I own a 4wd with big tires - NOT a drag truck, so I hve
deleted all of those messages. Maybe if I didn't get 300+ emails a day, I
would have more time to read... ;-)
>
> >>> jkp61@horizonview.net 11/07/02 11:20PM >>>
>
> I wonder what it is that gets people on this list to respond to a
posted
> message.?! Is it the person that posts it, or the topic, or just that it
was
> there at the right time, or?. There are people on here that have helped me
> and others, yet there are other posts that are completely ignored and I
just
> kind of wonder why. In a group that loves their trucks as much as we do
you
> wouldn't think there would be any bias as to who posted the message, but I
> sometimes wonder. Since there are several posts that almost seem to take
on
> a life of their own, yet there are almost as many that sit there without
no
> one even seeming to notice that they were there. At first I wondered if it
> was just mine, then as I paid more attention, I noticed that it could be
> from anyone, didn't matter if they had been here a long time or had just
> joined. It could even be a similar topic requiring a different answer and
> one person would get several responses and the other person wouldn't even
> get an answer back. Maybe it is just my ramblings and the problem that I
pay
> attention to things too much, but when you are in a group like this you
> start to look at people as your friends, even if you have never met and
when
> you get ignored time and again, you wonder what, if anything, you did
wrong
> to deserve it. I have definitely received a lot of useful information from
> this list and I want to say that I do appreciate it. I have also tried to
> help when I could. So for the people that do reply to even the seemingly
> stupidest message, Keep It Up! Thanks, John
>
>
>
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