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in article snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, Dave Hinz at snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net wrote on 20/10/2004 21:28:

He's one of you lot, I'm sure of that! Unless we're having an election and I missed it? :)

Paul

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Paul Halliday
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Wot, you mean you Brits have a different gummint than we do? First you corrupt the English language, and now you won't even participate in the Democratic process? Why, in my day.... (grumble mumble)

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Dave Hinz

in article snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, Dave Hinz at snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net wrote on 20/10/2004 21:56:

I'm still waiting for dictionary.com to send me that as my word for the day via RSS! It sounds to be of some Erin extraction - perhaps you should be voting for the other guy :)

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Paul Halliday

The connotation is of a semi-literate anti-government back woods type. Not sure of the linguistic origins, but it sounds southern-US'ish when spoken. Think hillbilly, if that means anything at all.

Say, how's the Queen? Tell ER I said "hey" next time you see her, wouldja?

Thanks awfully, Dave

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Dave Hinz

Dave ...

Take I94 into I65 and go all the way to the end. Go west from there about 35 miles and you're where I am!

While we may not always drive in the right lane, we do still sit on the left hand side of the car!!

Contact me at jwmort(at)yahoo.com and we'll discuss the door.

Many thanks!

I should be placed in a drug induced coma until Jan 2005 - maybe all this will be over by then!

Thank God for compact disk players and Sirrus Radio!

NIP

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Nobody In Particular

Paul,

I fully understand what you are referring to. I grew up in (West) Germany and have lived in Europe as an adult for 7 years before coming back to the US to tend to family matters. I also spent some time in the Middle East - when it was "friendly"!

While in Europe we used to get Sky News and the BBC - basically our only "real" source of English news. Our newspaper was the International Herald Tribune and the NY Times (when we could get it). Man, did we find our views leaning towards the left as a result!

I considered myself a conservative, while others would consider me more moderate. I consider myself a "global thinker" with regards to the knowledge that the sun does not rise and fall in the US, there are other nations that play a hand in the way things are done in the world.

I'm not a real big fan of the UN. I feel they are ineffective as a police force because of politics. The UN is in places that need not be and not in places they should. The UN needs to act in the Sudan. If Cyprus needs a UN force because of the Greek-Turk battles, why hasn't the UN gone into Gaza and the West Bank? The same thing has happened in both places, what is the difference?

I'm still undecided with regards to the EU. There is something to be said for a political and economic union that transcends borders and idiology - not to mention hatred from two World Wars. I'll wait and see what the EU does with Turkey and how they will support that failed economy.

Cheers!

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Nobody In Particular

While I'm only 6 miles from I-94, I am a bit far from I-65 in the east/west direction. I have a friend lives out in Washington state - the directions to their house from mine are "Take I-94 west, get off at exit (name), go right, through two stoplights, and I'm the second house on the left". No problem, but it's a 3 day drive or so to get there. Not much danger of getting lost...

You've got mail!

Dave

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Dave Hinz

"Paul Halliday" skrev i melding news:BD9C5E40.12284% snipped-for-privacy@blueyonder.co.uk...

Nissan Silvia twin turbo with gold wheels? You (or the guy who put it together if such a thing indeed exists) are mixing at least three different cars here.

Kristian

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Kristian Steve Jensen

Maybe place both the candidates in a DIC until 2008 and let Michael Moore see out his current term uninterrupted. Then again, we've just finished our elections. The incumbents are back in and the sore losers are holding mass public executions of each other... Cheers from Oz.

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hippo

While Saabnet.com is a great concept, the bulletin boards are censored and if you don't follow Scott's strict 'blinkering' board posting rules he blocks you from posting. I was blocked from posting on Saabnet because I set up my C900 Workshop website which contains online web-based forums, mailing lists, yahoo groups, etc. and stacks of reference material links which goes against 'Saabnet.com bulletin board posting policy', and the few posts I was able to get into the Saabnet.com C900 bulletin board all contained a link to my own website (since Scott's boards provide the facility to add a web link, etc. with each posting).

That's fine as it's Scott's call as to what he does with his site, but I don't condone the approach as he is basically forcing people to use his site and not go to alternatives (and there are plenty more besides the site I have set up).

The emails I exchanged with Scott were fairly terse and the tone seemed to be one of 'well if you do something which competes with Saabnet you will be blocked from posting'. If I was directly 'competing' I'd try to steal his commercial advertisers but I have a rule of not having any commercial advertising connected to my C900 Workshop site as the site is open to

*everyone* with an interest in C900's, not just those people who Scott thinks are not trying to usurp visitors to his site.

All that aside, the best way to initially track down information for something you're not sure about is via Google and by asking here in this newsgroup. I've discovered a lot of other sites with chatrooms, bulletin boards, online forums, etc. which Saabnet doesn't have any info about through searching via Google for info on various Saab-related topics, usually with fairly good results. Some of those I've added to the links page on my C900 Workshop site, and almost all I have invited to join the Saab C900 Webring that I set up (though almost none have accepted the invitations

- once again that's up to each website owner to decide to join or not).

Regards,

Craig.

PS. The other thing which bothers me about Saabnet is that Scott has a great photo gallery system going, but for the time I've known about his site he hasn't been accepting any new image submissions! No idea why. I just accept it and save up the pics I take of my Saab's and the work I'm doing on them for a time in the near future when I start creating my own Saab image galleries and (hopefully) get a public web-based Saab C900 pic gallery started.

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Craig's C900 Workshop

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In general, Scott's a fool.

Cheers!

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Henrik B.

Ahoy mateys we've found a Saabnet stooge! 8-)

The *concept* that Saabnet embodies is very good, but the *implementation* of that concept is extremely bad and gives the Saab enthusiast community a very bad reputation amongst the ranks of prestige vehicle owners. The primary reason is due to Scott's censorship (and blocking) of posts and his posting policies in general.

The online forums on my C900 Workshop site (and all the other alternative Saab online forum sites I have explored) have none of that superfluous s**te as I believe, as do most other site owners running forums for Saab enthusists, that *everyone* should be freely able to use online forums for genuine discussions about Saab-related issues without any censorship of their posts even if a poster is the owner of an alternative site, forum, etc. to one that might already exist on a particular site.

Fortunately, there are plenty of sites like mine that have been set up to counter the negative image created by Saabnet. I've got one of the alternative sites as most of you would know by now, but there are others which you'll find if you do a search through google. Most of the Saab owners clubs (such as SCCA here in Australia) have online forums too.

If you want global exposure you'll get a fairer hearing in this newsgroup than you will on Saabnet. If you would like a more focused audience try online forums, mailing lists, yahoo groups, etc. These things exist at my site but there are plenty of other sites offering similar things.

My site is "

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" for those who would like to checkit out. Mine is nowhere near the most extensive but it's the only oneactively supporting Saab C900 enthusiasts in Australia and New Zealand! 8-) Regards,

Craig.

PS. Today I created a new mailing list for Saab NG900 enthusiasts as a sister mailing list to the one I'm already running for Saab C900 enthusists.

The NG900 list is at "

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"if anyone wishes to subscribe to it and kick it off. I am not an NG900 ownerso I am happy to consider someone who is, and is passionate about theircar(s) and having an independent list for NG900's, to offer to become analternative list administrator. I'd prefer someone in Australia or NZ tokeep the local focus but like the web-based forums, the list is open toeveryone who has an interest in NG900's.

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Craig Ian Dewick

While the forums at saabnet may be censored, the saabnet site is still the single best collection of SAAB information on the web that I am aware of. Your site may be good for C900 enthusiasts, Craig. I cannot say since I am not one. OTOH, I have used the saabnet site for getting information about

9000's and NG900's for years and never once felt the need to post to the fora there.

I have also successfully advertised and sold 2 cars through the Classifieds section there at a total cost to me of $50. I suppose I could have sold the cars at zero cost on some other site or via spamming newsgroups, but the amount of traffic at the saabnet site got the cars sold quickly and at the prices I wanted.

I feel for those people who have been rebuffed by the saabnet owner/censor, but that does not mean that the site is not a valuable resource or that anyone who thinks that it is one is a "stooge."

Otherwise, better paint me a stooge...

-Fred W

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