Subject: Re: Morton Machinery, are you out there?

From: [email-masked]
Date: 5 Dec 1996 17:28:45 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Scott
Logan) writes:

>Am I the only one "lucky" enough to receive this?  Am I out of line
>for being offended by this?  I would think that they should have sent
>a brief message saying what was available, and a pointer to their Web
>address.
> 

G'day Lucky! 

I don't think you are out of line with your opinion. I pay by the hour and
I get really miffed when un-anounced huge posts come through. Some idiot
on atl.machines.cnc uuencoded some machine macros. At 14 minutes and still
counting I shut the modem off. I went back in and droped the NG from my
offline list.

Someone with Morton's Internet/www savvy should know better. I got one
>from  them about 4 or 5 weeks back that listed three machines. I sent a
very annoyed response to them and have received nothing since. I have
really been Killfiled. Suits me too.

Try e-mailing Mark. [email-masked]

Peter

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Logan)
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 01:11:46 GMT

Did anyone else receive a huge e-mail from Morton?  Apparently, I was
on their mailing list (on my CIS account), and this evening received a
junk mail from them on some Maho Machines they were selling.  The damn
message was over 95 Kb!  Apparently had a uuencoded photo with it, but
CIS doesn't handle those too well.

Scott Logan
[email-masked]
www.loganact.com

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From: [email-masked] (Randolph Lee)
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 14:45:45 -0400

>a brief message saying what was available, and a pointer to their Web
Scott,

I also got one and sent it back to the 3 Morton addresses I have... with a
few notes on using a web pointer rather than all that UUencode junk... if
some one asks for picture of something they are interested in fine... but
even then I would rather it was in MIME format... not UU... and it should
be at my request... they should never send unasked for binarys this way...
if I have asked to be on their mailing list (and I may have in one of my
visits to their site though I don't recall it) for notices of stuff for
sale... fine drop me a line telling me of this great batch of Schaublin
tooling just in for pennies on the buck...(G) and either point me to a web
page or ask me if I would like them to send me a gif or jpeg of it...)

but they should have it set up so they know that I would be interested in
say Tooling for a schaublin 102, J head bridgeport right angle attachment
in good condition, serviceable and cheap DRO for a 12 X 36 lathe, bench top
diefiler etc etc...

in otherwords Ishould be able to fill out a form on their web page listing
the stuff I am interested in... have that go in their database and when
stuff comes in that matches my seelections then generate a short email of
the sort outlines above. this would be a hell of a service and perhaps it
is something that dave might want to talk to his webmaster about as well.
 the chances that I would buy heavy Iron from someone on the left coast are
between none and none... NJ or PA is about as far as I would go...

Randolph Lee
Windshadow Engineering

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 5 Dec 1996 04:37:18 GMT

Scott,
   My sincere apology.  You are on an automated e-mail list we use called "Majordomo", and we send weekly bulletins on machinery for sale.  I will be more than happy 
to take you off the list first thing tomorrow morning.  
   Most of the response we've been getting are requests to be added so  people can be kept notified of our "Newest Arrivals".  But anyone requesting to be removed 
will be removed immediately.  
   Again, my deepest apology.  
--- Mark Rogo, President, Morton Machinery Company, Los Angeles, California
Visit us at www.mortonmachinery.com