Lurking on the digest

["David Lacroque - ColorImage" <ddl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a lurker and sometimes poster, I would like to say that I would love to
post more and help out those looking for advice. However I have limited
knowledge of both cars in general and BMW's. I have had my 325e for a year
now and it is my first car. What differentials work on a e34? performance
improvements expected from a rear sway bar? how do R1's work on the track?
Hmmm I'm not sure... but I still read all the posts to see if there is
anyway I can help. For now I will contimue to draw on the impressive
knowledge of regulars and will e-mail the newbie with the intermitent
window switch and other simple answers that I have picked up. Bottow line
is I like may other lurkers ( I presume ) do wish to help and try to when
ever we can. Maybe in 5yrs when I'm on my 2nd or 3rd bimmer I will be more
helpful but untill then I look forward to every digest so I can learn
alittle more about BMW's.

BTW I thought the Vinny post was great!

Dave Larocque
'87 325e - the first in a long string of BMW's to come

>Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:48:46
>From: Donn York <dyork@domain.elided>
>Subject: Is it Real or Is it Memorex?
>
>Fellow Posters:
>
>I was wondering if many people have noticed a lot of "lurkers" on the
>Digest with absolutely no sense of humor and a lot of anger.  I posted some
>admittedly dry parody on drag racing and signed it Vinny Barbarino and got
>a couple of extremely angry e-mails from people who obviously had a hard
>time telling parody from reality.  Perhaps I need a few <burps> <grins> and
>"HEY IT'S JUST A JOKE!!!" subtle messages in my text.  Anyway it's
>interesting that there are about 50 really active, interesting posters (I'm
>NOT all that active but I post when I have something to add) and another
>bunch of moderate posters.  I would guess 80 or 90% of the readers are just
>lurking in the background, some of whom are waiting to pounce.  I would
>think that the Digest would work even better, like a car club would, with
>active participation from more members.  Okay, I got that off my chest.
>Now I feel better.
>Donn York
>Treasurer, The Interlake Corporation
>(630) 719-7247
>

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