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Originally Posted by Ian Simmonds
I'm sure the intentions are honourable, but I'm with Phil on this one, having been involved (to a lesser or greater extent) with Audi Clubs for nearly 20 years, it's this 'perceived' (and it only has to be perceived) feeling of exclusion that will cause their ultimate failure.
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It's exactly what happened to the very original quattro mailing list run by Dan Simoes and Brett Dikeman in the USA. First there was a quattro list - then a Type 44 list broke off from it, then an S-cars list, then a North-East list.
It take a positive effort to check lists - it's a "pull" rather than a "push" transaction. There are only so many lists or fora any one person has the time to check each day - I run through about five Usenet groups, the IBM mainframe mailing list, the quattro forum, etc.
I',m _NOT_ going to look at a Yorkshire forum, a Derbyshire forum, etc., because I simply don't have the time. There's more than enough scope for local activities to be announced in Events and Meetings and I see external local groups as highly divisive and undermining our efforts here.