This is a fun little exercise – seeing which books were published 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 150 years ago and so on. I’ve imposed arbitrary cut-offs based on LibraryThing ownership, which means that, for instance, we lose Brian Aldiss’ The Primal Urge and Harry Harrison’s The Stainless Steel Rat, but it’s a diverse enough array as it is.
I invite further discussion and recommendations (or dis-recommendations) in comments.
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I interpret them as:
1. I don’t know anything about your specific issue or how big a problem it is, but hope my general enthusiasm for improving public transport will help.
2. I know of your problem already and I am prepared to make a noise about it.
3. I’ve forwarded your message on, please take on the effort of chasing me up about it.
4. I’ll ask the company for more information and I’ll try to use my personal contacts as well as official routes to see what can be done.
5. I am more interested in general campaigning than answering your specific question, and am setting your expectations accordingly.
6. I am more interested in general campaigning than answering your specific question, and can’t be bothered to set your expectations either.
I have some sympathy for 5, but given 4 of their competition managed to do better, not that much. My preference vote going purely on this response would be 2, 4, 1, 3, 5, 6.