From: ?????????????????? (Antti Kalliokoski)
Subject: about this group and tobacco pouches

Hi Steve and all the pipesmokers in the net!

At first I thank You Steve for organizing and keeping this group. But after 
the thanks I will give my opinion concerning the organization of the group.
As a pipe smoker I'm not very enthusiasted in reading these stories about 
cigars and cigarettes. Could it be possible to organize the group according 
to various means of smoking? The main part of the mailing list is 
interesting and I wouldn't leave without it for any reason. But ...

The quotations of Ehwa's pipe-book have been quite interesting and I give my 
best regards to "Andrew ?????????????????" for providing these wonderful 
quotations, although I must say that ethically this kind of practise is "on 
the line". But I think it's O.K. because the book is so rare and difficult 
to get.

Thirdly I complain about the information we get from the tobacco 
pouches.Wouldn't it be interesting to know, what are these "Oriental 
tobaccos" we have for example in the Amphora Regular ("the brown pouche") in 
addition to Burley, Kentucky and Virginia. BTW, are these B- & K- & 
V-tobaccoes so unamigious? Does anybody have the information concerning 
Amphora Regular? 
I know that this mixture is not quite highly regarded among pipe tobaccoes, 
but it's not so easy to get all these Latakias etc. here "in the backside of 
Lord's ass".

        Waiting for the next list.

                Antti Kalliokoski, Finland

[ Well, Antti, I generally just send the submissions in the order I
receive them. Organizing them in the way you suggest would be a lot of
work, and somewhat prone to error. And there would be some that don't
fit anyway (from people who smoke both pipes and cigars, for
instance.) 

Perhaps I could suggest that readers put [CIGAR], [PIPE], [HOOKAH], or
whatever in their subject lines, to make it easier for other readers
to scan through the Digest? -S. ]


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