Subject: Is David M. Macmillan here?

From: [email-masked] (Felice Luftschein)
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 05:49:33 GMT

Frivolous and not technical:
Is David M. Macmillan here? I read his letter in this month's
Home Shop Machinist, and would like to correspond about
it via e-mail.   Is metalworking a dying art? Is it percieved as wierd,
or respected ?and how old are most users of rec. crafts . metalworking, and
more importantly, does it matter?

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Shockey)
Date: 5 Jul 1996 08:25:02 -0700

>more importantly, does it matter?

I'm not sure.
I don't think so. (One blacksmith is worth more than 
  all the lawyers you can line up. And, they should be 
  lined up. And, once they're lined up . . . ) 
Yes. Both. 
It is not likely that many metalworkers will ever live 
  to be as old as they look/feel. 
It does not. Maybe. 

I can only hope that my answers are half as useless 
as your questions.  8-) 

--jim			<[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (darylb)
Date: 5 Jul 1996 21:17:27 GMT

I don't know how many David M. Macmillan's  there are in this world but I
know one who might have asked those questions and I forwarded your post on
to him. As for my responses;

Is metalworking a dying art? No
Is it percieved as wierd? Depends what you do with the metal 8^)
Is it respected? See above.
How old are most users of rec.crafts.metalworking? ?
Does it matter? Does what matter?

Cheers
Daryl

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Felice

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From: [email-masked] (James Kirkpatrick)
Date: 5 Jul 96 16:25:25 MDT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Felice Luftschein) writes:
|>Frivolous and not technical:
|>Is David M. Macmillan here? I read his letter in this month's
|>Home Shop Machinist, and would like to correspond about
|>it via e-mail.

As of late in May, there was a David M. MacMillan who posted to
this newsgroup, from an address of [email-masked], and a web page
of http://www.msen.com/~lemur/

Jim