Miata Mailing List: April 1996, Message #142
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   From: Anthony Prince 
Subject: RE : yet another example
   Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:44:49 -0500

Gary Fischman wrote :
> First, this post is *not* a joke.

>Here's another example of why I get my feathers ruffled.  
>There's a big press release taking place tomorrow only 20 miles 
>from my house, and Miata.net was neither informed nor invited. 

Gary, first let me say that I enjoy Miata.net (the web page).  
I've followed it from the beginning and have promoted it often 
in our club newsletter.  You've done a wonderful job at making 
Miata information available to the Internet community.  I feel 
sure the the work you've done is greatly appreciated by the 
majority of Miata.net (the list) subscribers.

Of course with an opening like that you usually know something 
else is coming so here it goes.  I'm sorry that you feel you are 
being slighted.  However I'm afraid I just can't see your point.  
I don't see why Mazda or MCA should feel obligated to include 
you in press releases or other such happenings.

Despite the considerable press coverage the Internet gets these 
days there are still only a minority of people on it.  In our 
club I would estimate about 25% of our members are net surfers.  
Our club is located in a "high-tech" town and has a number of 
engineers as members.  So I believe that our numbers would 
probably be above the average.  I believe Keith said recently 
that there were approx. 900 list members.  Compare that with the 
number of Miata owners and you can begin to see that coverage 
might not seem as wide spread as one would think.

> I suppose I should have gone to school with Vince and Norm.

Here is something you probably won't see to often.  Me coming to 
the defense of MCA.  Gary, on your web page you ask us to tell 
Norm and Vince how we feel about MCA's lack of involvement with 
Miata.net (the web page).  OK, Here goes.  I feel fine about it.  
I wish MCA had a web presence but I don't believe that it should 
be only throught Miata.net (web page or list).  I would like to 
see MCA develop and maintain thier own web page.

Let me say again, Gary, that I think you've done a great job and 
I will continue to tell people about Miata.net (the web page and 
the list).  I hope that you take this in the constructive manner 
in which it was meant.


Anthony Prince