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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 01:38:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Heald <justfred@netcom.com>
Subject: Another club name suggestion.

Okay, I guess I'm probably late with this but how about:

Information Green Lane

?

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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 01:42:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Heald <justfred@netcom.com>
Subject: re: handling volume via Usenet News ?

Alex,

> From: Alex Bronstein <alex@adoc.xerox.com>
> Subject: handling volume via Usenet News ?
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 6 lines)]
> Usenet News groups...
> What do people think of that? 

I suggested this earlier, and was overwhelmingly told that people hated 
the volume of 'noise' on Usenet.  I strongly disagree - I would be much 
better able to read this group if it were properly threaded, as on UN.

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From: Spenny@aol.com
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 07:22:50 EDT
Subject: Names List Final - LAST DAY

Please note: land-rover-owners@team.net, is the same as lro@team.net
the second is an abbreviation, just as P.O. Box is for Post Office Box

For the last time, the voting rules: Voting will start Mon, Sept 5 @ 6:30
am,when I will post a final edition of the list, and will end Mon, Sept. 12
@6:30 am, one week from the posting of the final list. I will post final
results no later than Wed, Sept. 14 
e-mail me at   spenny@aol.com     put BALLOT in the Subject header

Here is the list of names as of 2:00 am EST 9/3/94
PLEASE NOTE: that the last option is no name for the club, just continuing to
use the internet mail address

1.)   Land Rover Owners Club
2.)   Rover nets
3.)   Low Rangers of the Information Superhighway
4.)   L.R.O.I Land-rovers on the internet (info hiway)
5.)   RoversNet
6.)   IL-RIC - International Land-Rover Internet Connection
7.)   ILRN - International Land-Rover Network
8.)   Rovers in the Ether
9.)   Roving through the Ether...
10.)   Land-Rovers, Internet & Beer, a virtual community.
11.)   low-box net surfers
12.)   Ledgendary Land Rovers International
13.)   Rover 4X4s of the electronic highway
14.)   Raving Rovers!
15.)   The Net Rovers
16.)   Rover Rangers of the Infobahn
17.)   LROC of the Internet
18.)   The Wired Rovers
19.)   Space Rovers
20.)   Cyberspace LAN'd-Rovers
21.)   LROC of the Internet
22.)   CyberLand Rovers
23 )   Land-rover Users Group    (LUG)
24 )   Land-Rover Owners Virtual Register (L-ROVR) 
25 )   Land-Rover Owners Virtual, Internet Group   (L-ROVING)
26 )   Syberspace Land Rover Owners Club
27 )   Society for Landies United Together {Maloney Baloney  ; )  }
28 )   LUGNUTs (Landrover Users Group Network UniTed) or 
29 )   SCREWs (Society of Cybernet Rover EnthusiastS)?
30 )   Car List Rejects
31 )   NO NAME - Keep LRO@Team.Net/land-rover-owners@team.net

Spenny

Spencer K. C. Norcross                                Spenny@aol.com
Haverhill, Mass. USA
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1969 IIA SWB Bugeye - The Wayback Machine

Land Rovers on the Information Superhighway!
What will they think of next!

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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:02:24 -0700
From: jory@MIT.EDU (jory bell)
Subject: BALLOT   /   Re: Names List Final - LAST DAY

I vote for #31 (which, strictly speaking *is* a name: lro@team.net)

However, at this admittedly late date, I would suggest that a simple single
vote system is not a very good way determine a name. One better scheme
(which I'll poorly describe, possibly called "preferential" voting)
wherein:

1. each voter specifies your top (say 5) choices in order
2. you eliminate all the choices that did't get any #1s, as well
   as the lowest (say 2) #1 getters
3. you take the second choices of the people whose #1 choices were
   eliminated and apply them to the remaining #1 vote getters.
4. you repeat this process until you have a winner

It's something like that... essentailly a bunch of runoff votes.

It eliminates, for example, having a bunch of wacky choices which
completely split the wacky-name contigent, while a few people like me vote
for boring lro@team.net but win because we all chose the same boring name.

>Please note: land-rover-owners@team.net, is the same as lro@team.net
>the second is an abbreviation, just as P.O. Box is for Post Office Box
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 54 lines)]
>Land Rovers on the Information Superhighway!
>What will they think of next!

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Subject: re: handling volume via Usenet News ?
From: dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca (dixon kenner)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 18:07:54 -0500

Fred Heald <justfred@netcom.com> writes:

> > From: Alex Bronstein <alex@adoc.xerox.com>
> > Subject: handling volume via Usenet News ?
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 9 lines)]
> the volume of 'noise' on Usenet.  I strongly disagree - I would be much 
> better able to read this group if it were properly threaded, as on UN.

        I think the idea here is for a site with multiple users getting
        one feed and transforming that incoming mail feed into a local
        newsgroup in their hiearchy.  Even for one user on a site, this
        aliasing is not difficult to have done by the system administrator
        for the user and a lot easier on their mailbox.

        Rgds,

        Dixon

--
dixon kenner, dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca
FourFold Symmetry,            |    Ottawa Valley Land Rovers
Nepean, Ontario, Canada       |    1016 Normandy Crescent, Nepean
(OVLR's InterNet site)        |    Ontario, Canada, K2C 0L4

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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 18:42:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: David John Place <umplace@CC.UManitoba.CA>
Subject: Re: carb question

For those who are looking for an inexpensive replacement for the web strap
which covers the top of the radiator cradle and the hood sits on, try lamp
wick.  It is inexpensive and available by the yard.  If you can't find it
in your area, try using the web material from a belt.  It is necessary to
pass your sewing machine across the cut ends to prevent the material from
fraying.  The little split copper rivets are available in most leather
stores or you can use pop rivets, but pop rivets are not plat and the
metal hood will sit on the pop rivet not the web material.  
If you are having problems with off the shelf gauges having lamps that are
too bright, use 24Volt lamps instead of the 12 volt variety.  The GE type
that fits is 24Volt @.036 Amps.  These are screw base lamps.  Of course
with the reduced voltage, they last a very long time.  Does any one know
the address and particularly the phone number of World Wide Brands, the
company that holds the Camel Trophy name.  I want to call them and order
the 1994 Camel Trophy film.  Thanks Dave VE4PN

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Date: 12 Sep 1994 14:59:10 +1200
From: DAVID DEAN <DEAND@kea.lincoln.ac.nz>
Subject: Bought a(nother) Series I this weekend!

LROers,

After two months without a LandRover vehicle (I sold my RangeRover in 
July to buy a house) I'm back in business.

Details:
1956 Series I LWB pick-up cab with homemade wooden flatdeck for the 
amazing low price of NZ$750 (US$400)

Good Stuff (so far):
 - Pistons and rings repaired/replaces two years ago
 - No smoking or drinking
 - I successfully drove it home (around 60 miles and over a 1300ft
   mountain pass)
 - No rust (well, very little surface stuff in non-critical areas)
 - Cab is in excellent shape with new padded seat covers
 - No major mods beyond the flatdeck
 - Refitted with SII/III rims and 750-16s (600-16s are impossible to find
   here) pushing the top speed from 45 to 50mph

Bad/Questionable Stuff (so far):
 - Brakes need at least some adjusting/repair to keep it from pulling.
 - Leaf springs are quite tired.
 - Even noisier than my previous SWB Series I
 - 4" of play in the steering
 - No heater

Questions:
 - What's the best all-round service manual for a Series I?

 - Was there ever a factory flatdeck?  If so, what did it look like?
 
 - The farmer who sold it to me said it was a cross-over model to the 
   Series II and it had aluminum pistons and Series II bearings.  Is this
   possible?

 - Can I convert the Series I motor to a diesel?  If so, what do I need to 
   do the job?

Please send a copy to me directly as I'm on digest-mode and won't get 
today's responses until tomorrow.

Cheers and Thanks,

------- (David L. Dean - Department of Economics & Marketing) -------
----------- (Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand) -----------
--- ("sober fearless pursuit of truth, beauty, & righteousness") ----

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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 09:02:59 -0700
From: Roger Sinasohn <sinasohn@crl.com>
Subject: Palo Alto meet 9/11

After reading about how much fun the Portland meet was, I can't wait for 
the Palto Alo meet this sunday.  Only trouble is, does anybody have 
directions?  And Time?  Thanks in advance...

I'll be there with a 109" 2-door, Roof rack, and plates that say "INDY 1". 
 Hope to see y'all there!

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Uncle Roger                         "There is pleasure pure in being mad
sinasohn@crl.com                                that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California

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