Subject: Small Lathe recommendations?

From: [email-masked]
Date: 11 Dec 1996 05:55:33 GMT

I would like to buy a small lathe... 9x 20" or smaller. I like the Emco
Maier and Prazi European lathes, but am not sure I want to spend $2700.
Are they that much better than the Jet and Grizzly products? I am afraid
of buying Chinese and ending up with a piece of junk. This lathe will be
for pleasure, not income. What about the Sherline product? How does it
compare? I have worked on a 13" x 40" Logan or Republic and I know how
things should work.
Please send e-mail direct to [email-masked] so I don't have to search
this ng. Thanks.
-Burt

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:21:20 -0500

[email-masked] wrote:

[question sniped, irrelevant]

> Please send e-mail direct to [email-masked] so I don't have to search

Here we go again! 

Sorry to all the regulars in this news group but this is a special pet
peeve of mine.

BRosen, Sorry your too busy to read this newsgroup because if you did a
little reading of posts to this newsgroup you would find a wealth of
information on the subject your interested in, from some of the most
knowledgeable and friendly people on the net. If you did just a little
searching you would find hundreds of posts in deja news regarding your
question. 
   
If someone were to call me on the phone at the shop to ask a question
and then says "sorry I'm too busy to listen to your answer, please mail
me your response" I'm going to give as much effort to answering the
question as the person asking the question, which amounts to none.

As far as I'm concerned USENET is a participative forum not a black hole
which you drop a question into whenever your stuck and expect someone
else to do your research and apprenticeship for you. 

No disclaimers I am the company.

pht

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 12 Dec 1996 20:07:33 GMT

>No disclaimers I am the company.

No disclaimers needed, It really peeves me too. The arrogance of these
people. If they can get on to the NG to post the message then they should
at least visit a while until they get the answer. Fortunately most people
here usually ignore sauch request but is good to keep reminding us.

Peter
Cleaning wax from his 'deaf' ear.

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From: Ken Finney <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 20:20:55 GMT

[email-masked] wrote:
>It really peeves me too. The arrogance of these

Requesting that people do this is not a bad thing, especially on busy newsgroups or
if you will to unable to check the newsgroup for a couple of days because of travel, 
etc.  This is especially true of companies that are gracious enough to host newsgroups
at work, for their employees enjoyment.  Many of these companies do not devote
huge amounts of server space and messages sometime scroll off in less than a day.
What I feel is necessary is that when you send an email response, post it to the
newsgroup also.  This way everyone benefits.