Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 01:25:23 -0500
Reply-To: robertmstewart <robertmstewart@MAC.COM>
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From: robertmstewart <robertmstewart@MAC.COM>
Subject: Re: Is anyone going to be interested?
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Well, for me.. I would not be interested. Links though they are valuable, I
think should be made free to others. Content that is collected and organized
is another subject all together and would warrant a fee in my opinion.
I too have accumulated one hundred and six (106) links and have begun
organizing them, everything from where to buy, part dealers, unique van
modifications, worldwide van sites, European dealers and sites that detail
"how to's".
As soon as I have enough time I am planning on making my own Vanagon site
that will include all of this. I even had an idea of making a collective
video site where people could submit video's of repairs or how to's to
share... Later the video's could be sold on a DVD and could go to fund a
completely new Vanagon site with all kinds of bells and whistles and
possible go to fund events...
So in short I am not a fan of the idea of selling links, I have always
thought that like the internet being free, so should links, they bring us
together to what we want, cool Vanagon sites.
Content sharing on media is worth something and is tangible, links for me
are not.
Good luck on whatever you decide, and hope you have a great new year.
--
Rob
NYC/Long Beach, NY
88 Wolfsburg, Silver
> Okay, I'm looking for some opinions here. Over the last four years I've
> been an active subscriber to most of the Vanagon and Westfalia related
> Internet groups. I've been trying to better understand my own Westfalia
> camper and the Vanagon that it is based on. In doing this I've accumulated
> a bunch (spelled really big bunch) of URL's and documents covering just
> about everything and a lot of related topics. If there is enough interest
> I'm going to go through the list, organize them, clean out the dupes and
> dead links, and put them all on a CD in a format that can be imported into
> IE, Mozilla, Firefox, etc. And do the same with all the various text files
> I've downloaded. This is going to take a little time to do and I'm sure
> that the way I organize things will be different than what you might do, but
> I'll make it as clean and useful as possible. I'd provide these, on CD, to
> anyone that wanted one, at $10 each.
> This is not going to happen for at least a month (leaving at the end of the
> week for BBTB and points beyond) but it will happen, deadline the middle of
> March.
> BUT I'm not going to do this unless there is some interest out there. So
> let me know if this sounds like something that might be of value to you.
>
> Happy New Year
>
> --
> Loren Busch
> "I ordered a feast in the hope that you would come."
> "I came in the hope there would be a feast."
> (From "Monument" by Lloyd Biggle Jr.)
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