Date:         Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:57:53 +0000
Reply-To:     Robert Rountree <syncro87@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Robert Rountree <syncro87@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Archives, the DVD Edition?
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Re: Vanagon Archives, the DVD Edition?

>>Seems like an awfully good idea to me.
I would certainly be willing to pay for the info as its every bit as
valuable as the bentley guide.

This is where the problem comes in...."paying"... all the lawyers watching
this list eyes just lit up.

Now I'm not saying I've ever seen one.....BUT.......Like Clinton I didn't
inhale either;^)

But let's say there is a CD out there now, that has a collection of...
say...the ETKA5....
Acrobat .pdf files. websites of parts catalogs like they are on line, but
you don't have to be on line, and they download real fast.... some important
manuals scanned to .pdf's... the FI manual, the syncro manual etc. all the
hose diagrams as ..jpg's .... the repair shop list.... the Vanagon Squad
list etc.....The neat things about some of the old information on old
things, is they don't change. Lets say some serious lurker.. saved every
email that was helpful with a good explanation and put those into folders
with headings like, capacitor fix, tires, oil, head gaskets, 2nd battery
etc....how would we find this silver bearded masked man who flashes V signs
at every bus that passes him while humming along to Dead songs?... this
outlaw willing to flaunt everyone's online rights for the benefit of the
collective good. Hmmm? Could there be this mystery rescue CD, to be used
only in distress? Kept in a glove box, in it's black velvet Zorro case, only
to be opened when in trouble....Sounds like something one of those social
mined Canadians would do.

Sounds like a legal problem just waiting to be stamped out.....I for one
would not like being the volunteer archivist who gets stamped on.... But I
go along with George... lets get a volunteer...put a bulls eye on his/her
chest and wave them up over the trenches and see what happens. And test
George's theory.

>>I have found only
one truth without a caveat: whenever volunteers are involved, the depth of
low standards has no limit.

I like this guys humor