I was just wondering if you SR 20 owners…<
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The Yahoo membership directory contains no one with user ID “Samannon” or “Samannom,” the two different email addresses that “Sam” has provided for his messages. A message sent to either account will be bounced back with “user unknown.” [See below]
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The three discussions here on the theme of “why would anyone want a parachute???” have been launched by:
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someone who didn’t provide his real name but turned out to be logging on from Bend, Oregon;
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someone who did use his real name, which turned out to be the same as that of a Lancair test pilot;
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someone using a fake email ID.
Reasonable people can disagree about parachutes. If a purchaser thinks the tradeoffs involved in getting a built-in parachute are not worthwhile – too expensive, too heavy, too much doubt about how much good it would do – then it’s easy enough to choose some other plane, including a Lancair. I’ve made clear all along my admiration for Lancair products, and my belief that a strong Lancair AND a strong Cirrus (and a strong Eclipse, and a strong Safire, and a strong Garmin, and a strong Avidyne, and a strong ARNAV…) would be best for the future of flying. But I would hope the other companies would follow Cirrus in at least this regard: talk up your products by talking up YOUR products, not by fake-name, dirty-tricks derogation of someone else.
Thought experiment: suppose Lancair had this kind of discussion board. And suppose people kept logging on with fake names or first-names-only, saying “Hey, I hear the company can’t deliver any planes!” “Hey, I hear there are more problems with the Malaysian financiers.” “Hey IÂ’ve heard this or that bad news.” And suppose people doing this turned out to be using Duluth-based internet providers, or to have the same name as Cirrus staffers. How would that make you think about Cirrus as a company, as distinct from what you think about its products?
Proposal: if you’ve got derogatory information information or impressions to offer, as indeed I am doing in this very message, then let people know who you actually are.
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If I’ve drawn the wrong conclusions about “Sam” deliberately using fake IDs, I apologize. But here is what I found with messages to his address:
- Re “Samannom”
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
----- Transcript of session follows -----
… while talking to mx1.mail.yahoo.com.:
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<<< 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn’t have a yahoo.com account (samannom@yahoo.com) - mta139.mail.yahoo.com
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- Re “Samannon”
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
----- Transcript of session follows -----
… while talking to mx1.mail.yahoo.com.:
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<<< 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn’t have a yahoo.com account (samannon@yahoo.com) - mta214.mail.yahoo.com
554 .