Dave,
It is ignorant posts like yours that really annoy me. You can easily tell the level of complete annoyance by the length of the following. We are taking OUR time to clean up a bit and reset out priorities and this is what we get. YOU have not spent 1 second of your life in managing this group. Pieter & I have spent LOTS of time. It is time you don't see with us replying to members direct emails about their complaints. It is time taken away from me that I could be modeling or doing anything else really. People like YOU do not volunteer because it requires WORK. Why bother volunteering because you "have other people to do that" whether you like how it is done or not. I have heard it said that in volunteer organizations 5% of the people do 95% of the work. In the case here it is about .75% manage the group. While by far NOT a slight at Pieter, because I am home most of the time I do most of what needs to get done. That is why I was so glad Jeff volunteered to help out. It also is **extremely** annoying to have "helpful" suggestions sent which really mean full list moderation without ANY offer to help in the approval process. There was over 1300 posts last month alone. Why should I sift though and approve that "hot mess"? That is over 40 posts a day. I don't work for you! It is not a paying job! I forever will believe in self moderation by a group of 50+ year old allegedly mature men (mostly) that know the rules and what the content is supposed to be! So Dave - this part is JUST FOR YOU. I have tried finesse with moderate success. Here comes the baseball bat with your name on it. Maybe you will get IT now. You are on this list frequently posting whatever. But I don't recall when you have possibly ever or recently posted an S Scale "look what I just finished". If I am wrong - so sorry. While posting your finished models is by far not a requirement for list membership it would be nice to see that you "work where you live" because you are so actively posting, and antagonistic. ***Yes - you are about to become the first S Scale list poster child.*** You want tons of emails freely sent without any moderation whatsoever but your membership was set to NO EMAIL just in case you did not want to read the babble you helped create. So you don't eat what you want cooked. I have just changed your membership to "cannot post". Email me directly that you have accomplished some form of real S Scale modeling in the next week. Take a photo of a PRS kit not assembled sitting on a newspaper showing the date and again in the same way when it is completed. I promise I will switch you back - business as usual. If you cannot or do not want to do that - Buh Bye. I will give you more time to do real S Scale modeling by not posting here. For all here - you want clean up - you got it. But more "no posts" changes can be done. Now with some help there is a new Sherriff in this small town. **NOTE THIS*** If you post something and don't see it in a day or so you can now assume the possibility that you are on moderation and it has been deleted without notice. I cannot ask Jeff to **reply to everyone** and explain why their post cannot be released. Clean up your content - don't get put on moderation - and your posts will fly freely as usual. My new S Modeling content. I spent some of yesterday designing 2 new parts for my PRSL AS16. Because they are so very custom to a specific locomotive I am going in a different direction for the first time. Previously all RP parts I have made for master patterns were for master casting purposes. Because my AS16 is mixed materials there is not advantage to getting them cast in brass. So for the first time I am using the real RP parts on a model. I have been assured they are suitable for painting and use like a regular plastic part. My PRSL AS16 6015 has split vertical headlights. (See photo) BTS has a wonderful casting (Alco back up light I think) for this that worked perfectly but that whole area is then covered by an overall lens. I did not have a suitable bezel or headlight ring for that. I am waiting for some LEDs for the headlight from Richmond Controls. I tried some really small Richmond LEDs for the class lights but they are still too big so I am unfortunately keeping the 1.5v bulbs. More to come when I get them installed. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progess at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
