Final Posting (was Buy a magazine instead!)

["Darrell Gainey" <darrellgainey@hotmail.com>]

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Hello,

I am posting this as my 'right of reply'.

I could begin by being sarcastic by stating that the fire damaged roadrailer 
in SA could have been stopped earlier if a posting had been sent by an 
observant trackside Auslocoer and read by the Auslocoer subsribed driver 
using his 'Pocketmail'.

Or maybe Junee Peter would not have to apologise for battling to inform the 
rest of us of coming train movements only to find that his postings have 
gone who knows where. And remember that he is probably also using STD phone 
rates. Not all of us live in/near a big city. Fortunately!

Or the travelling railfan driving hundreds of miles to Parkes to get 442s6 
on the returning ACT ARHS Broken Hill tour might have second thoughts if he 
knew that a F.C. 81 class would be up front!

But if you really knew me, the word 'sarcastic' would not be the first one 
that comes to mind...

Plenty of other words would though! But you won't get any help from me!

But seriously, at no time was I aiming any of my frustrations at our 
administrator Bob. I fully realise that his is a thankless task made 
difficult by a problem completely out of his hands.

Hopefully these problems can be civilly 'talked over' unlike the apparent 
happenings over in WA re their ARHS!

I have now loaded 'Global Freeway' which uses a 1300 number to connect.

Not only will this save me a heap of money, but I can now write longwinded 
and meaningless messages to have posted on Ausloco!

Bye.

P.S. The 81 class on the special is a rumour I heard this arvo. It appears 
that the 442s does not have a special radio (satellite?) for traversing one 
of the track sections.

>From: David Bromage
>
>On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Darrell Gainey wrote:
>
> > If it is only history that is being recorded, it would be far cheaper 
>for me
> > to go and purchase Motive Power, Railway Digest and the Bulletin instead 
>of
> > connecting using STD timed phone rates!
>
>1) Only a very small minority of people on the list would have to call STD
>to access email.
>
>2) Magazines are physically limited by space, take time to come out and
>cannot be corrected in a hurry. For example, Digest reported some time ago
>that NR had gained the Toll contract. By the time it went to press, NR had
>lost it again!
>
>3) There is and will continue to be a need for near real time updtes of
>information.
>
>Simply, if you don't find the list useful then don't subscribe.
>
>Cheers
>David
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