Fellow list members, Soon I will go try to finish removing the last salvageable parts from this old 82 Westy (Required Vanagon content). My 12 year old son, who is on spring break and I have been having a great time learning how these beasts are put together by taking it apart. If we mess something up, at least it is not the part from a working van. He is somewhat of a bookworm, brainy, nerd type who hates to get dirty, etc., so this change in interest and willingness to work enthusiastically on this project has been a welcome development. Got the tranny and door locks Tuesday, will try to finish the windows and dash today. SPAM Zen riddle solution: A repetitive and redundant discussion on a Vanagon list about SPAM is SPAM. 1) Many of you are writing sending in messages through Gerry about spam that you attribute to Gerry which I have not received. If it came from Gerry, then I would receive it also. While I do get some spam from Gerry, I am not getting all of this spam, so there must be some other source for the spam. Be sure it is SPAM from Gerry before you SPAM Gerry with a message about SPAM. For example, I have not received Snow White in at least a month. 2) These messages from list members complaining about the spam far outnumber the actual instances of spam and therefore require me to resort to the delete key (which really isn't that inconvenient as has been noted by many others) far more often than necessary. If using the delete key is such a big deal to you then don't make others resort to it even more by sending in the same old complaints about SPAM. 3) As been noted over and over and . . ., don't reply to the SPAM in an attempt to remove your email address from their list. This only validates your email address, or that of Gerry and insures additional SPAM. 4) Set up a filter when you see the same source for SPAM a second time and have your software automatically send it to the trash. This way you don't have to see it. But I don't want to do this to list members who continue to write in about SPAM because then I would not ever get you contributions about Vanagons - which might be useful to me. You might also set up a Folder in you inbox for mail from Gerry and get a better idea of what you got from Gerry and what did not come from Gerry. 5) Chill - do the junk mail and advertising flyers that come to you via regular postal mail cause you such a pain? If one aging hippie is able to give his partner endless sexual pleasure without the need for alternative Viagra, who is to say that some other aging hippie out there may no longer be such a "stud muffin" and be in great need of this product? Or, that his partner may think he is in need of the product. (I did not get this advertisement so it must not have gone to all Gerry subscribers.) If you have read this far, have a great weekend, enjoy the coming of Spring, get going on those Vanagon repairs, etc. Sam Walters 84 Vanagon, 174k, original owner 89 Syncro, 179k, miles, new to me 12/00 |
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