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Re: [motm] Re: Is MOTM/5U dead???

2017-01-08 by Thomas White

I'm still here too guys. Have a tall server rack full of MOTM and diy 5U as still love it. Never could get into the Euro thing. Both a black hole for $$$ and tinier of than I'd like (cramped when patched). 

Thomas White

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> On Jan 7, 2017, at 12:18 PM, Aaron Day day.aaron@gmail.com [motm] <motm-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 07 Jan 2017, at 17:58, ivancu@... [motm] <motm-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Secondly, I think a lot of the MOTM discussion has gone to Facebook as well as Muffwiggler.
>> 
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> 
> How has this worked out for everyone?
> 
> In its prime this list had perhaps 100 active members (I may be wrong but that is what it felt like). There was a *very* high s/n ratio in the communication. Folks like J. Larry Hendry and Scott Juskew (and JH and JLR etc.) all kicked some serious butt with their contributions. It felt cozy.
> 
> I have a FB account I’ve used to sell gear with and I use to talk to Kent Spong and Larry Church. Besides that, its been left fallow. I just don’t have the discipline to not look (to see what new PCB etc./thing I could buy) so, I don’t use it. I guess I am missing out. Then again, the overconnection that the FB walled-garden promotes feels like death by a million mouse-clicks.
> 
> My question to the group:
> 
> Has the trade off of a bigger market for buy and sell along with group-buys etc. on MW been an improvement on the smaller group? A(n) d/evolution? 
> 
> Greetings from snowy Berlin,
> 
> Aaron
> 
>

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