JEAN PARROT wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JP>       Hello, Roy, it is a great day here.

 RJT> Not so much marketing,  though of course the makers of stuff would
 RJT> prefer to have you buy new than to repair the old.

 RJT> Me,  I don't like it much,  that it so often costs so much to fix
 RJT> things that it's not worth doing and cheaper to buy new.  But trying to
 RJT> buck the economics of the situation doesn't pay,  does it?

 JP>  We are stuck with this marketing setup, Roy. Like it or not, it
 JP> will  keep as is for years to come. But for even money, I will try
 JP> to repair  what I can as I did for that oven. Keeps my neurones
 JP> active. 

Yeah,  I'm still inclined to try and fix things,  even when it may not be
practical to do so.  To try and figure out some way to make use of
something,  rather than throw it out...

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