Mark,
Interesting point. Perhaps John will tell us. If he really is a Mercedes man perhaps he will comment on the constant references you see here to the reducing build quality of their products. I still like them and would aspire to a Mercedes one day. Thought an A-Class ideal for the school run before I saw earlier threads about them. Shame.
Actually the displayed e-mail info after our names has puzzled me. It is often different to the correct e-mail address for the person if you click on their name to mail direct.
Mine at btinternet is correct but some at hotmail have btinternet displayed, others have just a site number displayed and so on.
Someone will tell us.
David
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David
Yes, my displayed address is nothing like the actual address, but I've certainly received 'off-site' e-mails, so the system works.
Regards
john
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I`ve nothing to hide as I do not work for Mercedes. I own an R reg Explorer and am pissed that it takes so long for Ford to react in the UK. Any comments other than on the server which my mail was routed through?
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John,
You'll know this forum will try and lead every topic to speed cameras, bikers vs drivers, bargain prestige cars and the like. Ask an innocent question that we can twist on the first post and you'll have another 21 on the Euro quick as anything.
I try and angle everything to discussing how wonderful turbo diesels are then nudging the thread towards the excellent Citroen/Peugeot TD engines. You see, I've done it again, can't help it.
It is interesting to see how many posts it takes a seasoned contributor to get on his/her favourite track. Actually where are the girls, cars aren't just boy's toys anymore.
Just look at the poor chaps with 0 replies. Asking a couple of simple tech questions about a VW towbar and Escort washer bottle (someone tell TG how to do that job please), if no-one can see any mileage in them they leave them dead!
David
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David,
it would have been some news if I had been from Mercedes Benz and slagging off the competitors SUV. I am getting all sorts of replies and I suppose it is entertaining but I really want to know what Ford UK will do to safeguard my family. It ain`t funny driving around with a pair of tyres ready to blow up in your face and have Ford basically saying that they don`t give a damm. As far as PSA diesels are concerned, yes they are good. But I think the competition is catching up.
John
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I think you will find (and Martyn will no doubt correct if I am wrong) that the email address is voluntary, the text after the name, on the other hand, is the ISP (service provider), who you connect to the internet with, which cannot be changed.
Jonathan
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Jonathan,
But look at Mark just above. His displayed address by his name has no similarity to the one you see in the bottom bar of your browser if you hover over his name (hyperlinked), i.e. the actual address that any direct mail would go to.
I've picked him as he's on this thread but there are many more. Odd.
David
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Well I reckon the difference in displayed e-mail address is because of what you type in all due to the cookie. Because I log in from a number of locations, just depends where I am as to which profile my PC decides to give me and whether I can be bothered to type in all the details. Thats without the complication of getting a variable TCP/IP address due to DHCP servers! But in all honesty I have never seen the e mail address at the bottom vary from what I have/have not typed in.
The indicated ISP changes as do the various times I post as its all a case of where you are what time zone and how I have connected, either through the office @ lunchtime, direct from home on own PC or laptop, via Tunnel from a hotel or whatever.
While we are on IT stuff it pisses me off, just as much as 100E wipers used to, the comparison with USA of our IT infrastructure in UK. The other month in Orlando airport as the plane was delayed I managed to log in, send and receive about 10 e-mails all from the dataport on a payphone, it took 10 minutes flat from boot up to packing it away, and all for free.
See we started up on Wilderness tyres and got onto 100E wipers! Now if they had made a auto-diesel Anglebox...........
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Jonathan wrote:
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> I think you will find (and Martyn will no doubt correct if I
> am wrong) that the email address is voluntary, the text after
> the name, on the other hand, is the ISP (service provider),
> who you connect to the internet with, which cannot be changed.
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> Jonathan
Crikey, am I *that* predictable?
OK, yes, the email address is voluntary, in that you can choose to leave that box empty when you make your reply. And what you put there if you *do* choose to fill it in is also voluntary. Those people who use a hotmail account (or pobox or yahoo or excite, or whatever) are using web-based email, which they can access from anywhere as long as they can get onto the internet. So, for example, I can go down to the local Library, buy some web time, and use my yahoo account to send an email. If at the same time I also make a contribution to The Back Room and give the yahoo address as my email address, then that is where the clickable link will go to. But the bit in brackets will be derived from the DNS (Domain Name Server) through which the Library's internet connection is made. Get it?
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Well never mind about cars and never mind about safety issues with major manufacturers in the UK. HonestJohns Back Room comes to you sponsered by Ford UK or the internet police. Choose! The isp is the true holy grail which makes me the black sheep working as a secret agent for the Mercedes faction. Beware all you who contribute as you will be found out by the forces of truth!!! This is really the most amount of b.llsh.t I have ever come across. Someone raises a serious question about the recall of a tyre, which the american mother of Ford proclaimed to be worldwide, and is crucified due to an supposedly surefire nindicator called ISP. I own an R reg Explorer in the UK and DO NOT WORK FOR MERCEDES. The truth police is welcome to visit me in Essex and control the truth of my claim. So can we leave the ISp and answer my question?
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I am new(ish) at posting to this site. My first few serious technical enquiries a while back had minimal responses. However in time I realised there was a lot of decent content hidden in the banter, and that the banter was far more considered than many other vehicle forum sites. So I just had to loosen up.
Most people here are respecful and have a genuine interest in cars. Each will seem to have their angle and this surfaces frequently, but so what. Some other vehicle forums are not at all well run/policed. If you start a thread on one of those that offends the "group" thoughts/direction they'll run you off with serious abuse.
None of us can control a thread (or the contributors) once launched so you just have to go with it and relax.
I would say this forum and one other for the Citroen BX that I visit daily are the best on the Internet.
David
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david, we are not talking about how to get a tow bar for a vw beetle. yeah ok i am relaxed about that and enquiries of a similar nature. the explorer and wilderness at saga is one which has cost a 176 lives and ford uk is slow and ridiculously inefficient at recalling a potentially fatal vehicle tyre combination. remember that in the us people are only allowed to travel at speeds of 55mph and here in britain i convey my family at much higher speed. what would happen to us if a tyre bursts. no one in this forum seems to care. anyway whether they care or not i don t care . I WANT TO RAISE AWARENESS AND MOTIVATÉ THE 6000 EXloPRER OWNERs IN THE UK TO GET ON FORDS BACK!!
so yes i am a pretty relaxed : but not when i ferry my family in 26K worth of disaster machine. and by the way the new ford maverick failed the first security tests miserably. the airbags on driver an passenger side did not inflate in the simulated us crash!!!
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