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Date:         Tue, 3 Jan 2006 00:22:12 -0700
Reply-To:     Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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From:         Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Is anyone going to be interested?
In-Reply-To:  <BFDF8303.4A7B%robertmstewart@mac.com>
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I think Loren was talking of selling because he had a lot of documents as well, and they might be too big to put up on the web if he was just using free space.

But can't we use space on the existing Vanagon website(s)? Whose are those, like where the archives are stored?

It's really better to have one consolidated site with organized links, and one organization system, than many of them. Why not put this up on the same site as the archives? Larry has done a lot of this as well - perhaps if he has space, you can organized all your stuff (Robert or Loren, either of you) and load it onto Larry's site.

Joy

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:::-----Original Message----- :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf :::Of robertmstewart :::Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 11:25 PM :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM :::Subject: Re: Is anyone going to be interested? ::: :::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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