KEEP LIST ALIVE (was READ THIS)

[Ben Baird]

I have been on the list a few years and have been on digest the whole time.
I arrived just following the unfortunate passing of Matt Kempe.  The
outpouring and general camaraderie of the SE-R community is what stood out
to me.  At the time I had been around a while on the old Sentra.net list and
was looking for an SE-R.  I started in the archives before I ever got on the
list and found many useful things before I went shopping.  I have know been
through 2 B12's and 2 B13 SE-R's in that time and have gained a lot of
valuable information that has saved my tons of money and helped me to have
great driving pleasure with my 4 cars.  I have had an overall good reaction
to my usually obscure question and many have replied off list.  If I get no
answer I will usually find it out myself and then post it for someone else's
future use.  I am no great computer user and usually have a 60% success rate
with the archives.

I vote to keep the list alive.  I feel it is time for a revamp rather than a
shutdown.  There is to much history, information, knowledgeable people, and
a strong community to just turn the light out and walk away.  I agree that
there are list problems from time to time, but overall this is still the
place where it started and grew from.  As with any social group that grows,
eventually it will spread out and separatist groups will form to cater to
their own specific likes and start their own new social groups or die off on
their own.  That does not mean that the main list must grow stagnant and
die.  The community has grown over the years and as the many variants of the
original were built and the knowledge grew the community as a whole has
changed and diversified, I would rather see the main list grow along and
change with the times, but I would like to see the core niche that it has
always filled stay, improve, and continue to grow like the community as a
whole.  The archives, and list are such a valuable asset the community it
would be a damn shame to see them disappear.

These are my opinions obviously and just one point of view.  If it were not
for this list and the members of the community I would not be as happy with
my 2 SE-R's or a lifetime SERCA member.  I like the older simpler things
that's probably why I drive a REAL SE-R (ducks)... but I would never throw
out my SE-R because a motor mount went bad or because I need new paint, I'd
fix it and go back to driving the hell out of it.

Please keep the list up Larry.  I have never been the whiney type, but
PLEASE...

Ben H. Baird
'91 SE-R
'92 SE-R