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Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> << Lancair Builders' Mail List >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I hope everyone that subscribes to this list realizes that one or more Internet "WEB crawlers" periodically scan the LML site and index every word. That's how search engines manage to find everything in record time. They just read the pre-prepared index of words and provide you with the hits in a few seconds. The WEB crawlers do all the hard work behind the scene by methodically scanning the majority of sites on the Internet for their contents. WEB crawlers populate the various indices. The major search engines, Yahoo, Excite, AltaVista, etc, each have their own schedule and list of Internet sites they will "crawl" over every so often. That is why one search engine may not return the same content that another will. WEB crawling takes a long time to make one circuit of the entire Internet. Most search engines only scan a site when they are asked to do so by the registered site owner. I mention this so that you all know that anyone wanting to know about Continental Engines by using a search engine will find references to the LML eventually. It may take a few months for the WEB crawlers to have done their work against the LML site, but sooner or later, what is said here will be available to search engines. This forum can provide positive and negative advertising for anything it cares to tackle. If enough people are PO'd at Continental, then put it on the record here. Anyone looking for information on Continentals products will tend to listen to us more so than anything Continental can devise in promotional advertising in any medium. If an individual threatens any major corporate entity with a law suit, that has some limited effect - namely to enrich the attorney the case is assigned to in order to bury it in paperwork for a few years. What do you do in the interim - not fly? That one voice is very easy to silence. I'm willing to bet that if one were to scan the LML WEB servers access logs, we would find that all the major component suppliers routinely visit the site to see what's going on. Sooner or later someone at Continental with access to more than a morse code key and a Western Union Telegraph pad will realize that there is no way to shut us up once we've decide to fight back. The traditional stall and avoid approach then starts to break down rapidly. If a class action is proposed, then the "class" of injured parties has to be found first. The more people that sound off about a flawed product, poor after the sale support, and an arrogant attitude to boot, the better. The Internet is the world's new and expanding vehicle for anyone to speak his/her mind. Take advantage of it. Bill Gradwohl IV-P Builder LML homepage: http://www.olsusa.com/Users/Mkaye/maillist.html