It sounds allot like an advertisement for SI***S to me.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of
> Jeff at Vanagonparts
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:55 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: OT - Elvis Radio - All Elvis, all the time
>
> I consider this SPAM as well... but it was posted on a Friday so I
guess
> it's allowed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of caverat
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:52 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: OT - Elvis Radio - All Elvis, all the time
>
>
> > Unfortunately they dumped my 2 favorite channels and were
> > most unreceptive to my suggestions to bring the format back.
> > I have seen a steady degradation of Sirius programming over the last
10
> > months.  Sirius is great if you like hardrock, sports or partyline
> conservative talk
> > shows. It doesn't offer much for someone like me.  I'm looking at
this
> post
> > as OT spam.
>
>
> Sorry to hear you didn't like the service.  With over 100 channels,
most
> people will find several that they like.  I personally think the
> programming
> has improved, and I never listen to the hardrock, sports, or partyline
> conservative talk shows.  There are many other options that I like
better.
> They have dropped not-as-popular channels and added new ones in their
> place.
> Several more channel changes are coming in a few days.  They do listen
to
> all suggestions though, but they make channel content decisions for
> business
> reasons to attract more people to the service.  Here's a customer
service
> response posted on a newsgroup to their approach:
>
> "We do our best to accommodate all of our
> listeners and their wants and needs. In having to deal with a large
> audience (all of America) we do our best to appeal to the most of our
> subscribers and visitors, as we consider our customers in every move
we
> make. As SIRIUS does not add commercials to our music streams, changes
> and additions to our service and website are driven by our customers
> rather than dictated by advertisers and we are forwarding your
comments
> to our programming team for review. We rely on the input of all of our
> subscribers as every minor consideration is still a consideration we
want
> to
> be able to make.
> We are dedicated to providing quality service and customer
satisfaction.
> We
> encourage comments on how we can improve our service."
>
> Even though you consider it spam, it is not intended to be.   It may
be
> somewhat off topic, but to me it also has to do with making a vanagon
> driving experience even more enjoyable.  The Elvis Radio item is
getting a
> lot of press, and I figured there must be a least one listmember who
would
> be interested in the news.