Date:         Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:11:28 -0400
Reply-To:     "Samuel L. Walters" <slwalters@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Samuel L. Walters" <slwalters@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Spam, unsolicited email about spam, give your partner, etc.
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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