Re: [OT] Airing out personal differences (Was: The future of broad guage...)

["chris@enet21.com.au" <chris@enet21.com.au>]

Any personal differences, disagreements etc should be settled out in the
"car park".

james_ccj@my-deja.com wrote:

> > Very well said. It seems unfortunately, that certain members of this
> group
> > seem to have differences with other people in the group that they
> just have
> > to air out. I will admit, that I have done it from time to time in
> the
> > past, but I don't keep on it incessantly like a broken record.
> Neither do
> > most other people who have differences from time to time, like the
> MVA/DVA
> > debate of last week.
> >
> > People get sick of seeing the same shit all the time, and this is I
> think
> > is ruining the newsgroup. Many people I know have left the group
> because
> > it's gone downhill of late - very downhill. This newsgroup however,
> seems
> > like utupia, when you compare it to groups like aus.comms, where you
> could
> > ask a simple question, and 90% of the time have flames thrown at you
> from
> > all angles.
> >
> > Just take a look at the aus.rail archives, back in 1997, 1998, and
> compare
> > to now.
> There were LOTS of difficult people in the newsgroup also.
>
> > Regards
> >
> > Michael
> This is reflecting recent railway developments ... there's not much
> going on in the railway industry lately. Small surprises(FA/FV,some
> interstate business)no rolling stock ordered or delivery. Compared with
> 1997(eg, AN privatisation), 1998(eg introduction of tilt train/GSPE)
>
> There are bunch of talks(Speedrail, Melbourne-Darwin rail link) but
> little action. Things might get better soon as Victorian operators
> order their new toys. Arrival of Millenium trains, Alice Spring-Darwin
> rail link and starting of 80m$ upgrading Victoiran country lines,
> privatisation of Westrail and NR and hopefully some surprises!
>
> Cheers
>
> James
>
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