Re: Arrogant Australian Egroups

[usenet.spam@gunzel.net (Michael)]

Chris Gordon <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au> wrote in article
<3A00A9ED.E79CC831@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au>: 

>>> I am disgusted at the seemingly endlessly growing list of private
>>> egroups that totally disregard your application, without even
>>> bothering to find out who you are.
 
>> They are private groups. Nobody has the right to join them. They have
>> been developed by people sick of the flame wars in Usenet who wish to
>> discuss the topics which interest them without being abused for doing
>> so.

>They are (as someone put it to me) "the snob mob", people who only come
>out to photograph trains when the sun is shinning.

Sounds about right. I have noticed increasingly lately there are a number 
of "gunzels" that fit that category - overly secretive, and not willing to 
help the average railfan out - and moreso pissed off when your average 
railfan does find out information they don't want them to know (special 
workings, and such).

M.

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