Date:         Sun, 5 Mar 2006 10:32:21 -0600
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: How long on the list?
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> Back in June 2000 I bought my first Westfalia, an '85 Vanagon
> Wolfsburg camper "Camel".  I joined the list sometime in the
> spring of 2000 and have been a memeber with a few short breaks
> since then.  I still see the same names posting today I saw in
> the early-for-me days.  I do not post as much today, but I skim
> over the subjects and pick out what looks interesting.  My '84
> Westy "Hershey" does not see as much use today as daily-driver
> Camel did, but I still enjoy taking out for a ride now and then.
>
> How long have you been on the list?

since before the age of the dinosaurs. :)
did i ever tell you guys about dinosaurs??? ;)

no, really. it was back in march or april of '94 when i claim to have
nagged gerry skerbitz into starting the vanagon list
on the computers at the university of minnesota. he got permission
from his boss and that's when it started. we started
pimping the list to all the bus folks who asked questions on the
...argh, can't remember what it was called. the thingie where they had
all the separate categories, like autos.vw.bus ... and stuff like
pictures.binary.clearsky.bluebird.stupid.droppings and so forth. the
ancestor to the 'modern internet'. anyway, we suckered ...er,
convinced people who had buses (not just vanagons) to move over to the
mailing list. after a few years, the aircools got kinda tired of
hearing about all the coolant leaking and head gaskets to they up and
split off to their own lists, which is now split again into the type2
list (www.type2.com ...where aircooled vanagons can find lotsa engine
info) and the vintage bus list (for the old split-window buses).
eventually, even the eurovans split off (sorry, don't recall the ev
list name), and all we have left are the wasserleekers. ;) more or
less, anyway.

i can remember when we thought it was hot stuff cause we had ONE
HUNDRED folks on the list!!! ;)  that was back when i didn't have a
real 'boss' and was told to sit and wait til i was told to do
something. which lasted for about two years. :) so i had plenty of
time to do the Frydaye Phollees and stupid poetry and such. for those
of you with brain damage, those poems are still viewable on
www.type2.com (click on Library, then click on the line above the
picture). :)

sigh.

so little time and money, soooo many buses. :(

unca joel