Re: LRO: Re: LRO Mailing List DIGEST

From: Perrone Ford (ford_p@nettally.com)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 11:02:49 EDT

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    Ian,

       What's that subscription address?  I own a 91rr, would someday like to own a series, and I believe in doing ALL my own work.  Although I am dreading the day the tranny packs in!  I have to agree that from the perspective of someone who has only owned a rover for a couple of years, all this bickering seems silly.  I can see splitting the list over tech/non-tech users but there is a MUCH easier way to deal with this through filtering but enforcing the use of subject tags like [Tech], or [Accessory], or [Offroad].  That way users could send stuff directly into the trash bin without even seeing it.  Or you could send all mail from a particular user into the bin, and just read the rest.

       But honestly, I don't see the harm in asking basic technical questions of a knowledgeable group of folk regardless of the type of truck.  When you get right down to it, there's not a hell of a lot of difference between one petrol engine and the next, and between one LR chassis and the next.  The series trucks may not have an ECU, and the coilers don't have removable doors, but come on.. there's not THAT much difference in the mechanicals... 

    -Perrone

    Ian Stuart wrote:

    On Thursday 05 July 2001 15:19, you wrote:
    Hang on Bob, this is a Land Rover Owners
    list and a Range Rover is still a Land Rover. We even have the odd
    Discovery owner use this bar. last time I popped into the Coil/Range
    Rover bar it was full of folk who do not like getting their hands
    dirty.
    We've been discussing this on the UK-LRO list.

    I was here when the first LRO list split, and the split was *supposed* 
    to be between the workshop/non-workshop people - with the majority of 
    the RR/Disco people being firmly in the non-workshop camp.

    Over time, it has mutated into leaf verses coil tribes - even to the 
    extent that some people refuse to discuss the ability of the RR & Disco 
    vehicles as serious off-road vehicles, and as vehicles that are 
    suitable for home-restoration.

    To us non-NorthAmerican listers, it's amusing/sad/worrying that so many 
    people seem so hell-bent on ignoring the later models.

    In the UK, the culture of Hybrid vehicles is much stronger, so we don't 
    get as bogged down in the leaf/coil issue.

    Just my opinion...

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