Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:30:30 -0500
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: blatant plea for sympathy (LVC!) hair attack-
In-Reply-To: <410-220071115184316800@earthlink.net>
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That's why we all stay on this list, Jeff. Because everyone is really nice,
at least all the folks I've met and exchanged emails with, and we put up
with each other, and don't get all uptight about whether absolutely
everything we say is really about vanagons. As long as we pretty much stay
away from politics and religion. Better when people don't get really rude
and insult each other's knowledge of VWs, too, though that occasionally does
happen.
Actually, it seems to me that some of the most enthusiastic discussions have
nothing at all to do with vans! Or maybe that's just what I read, not being
much of a mechanic?
Vanagon content: people who own vanagons and post to this list are good
folks. Or good volks.
And I promise really soon I'll adapt to my new three-legged life and stop
posting about it, or posting about any other irrelevant things like bad hair
days, or no hair days, or the color of my walls! :-)
Joy
:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of Jeff Stewart
:::Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:43 PM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: blatant plea for sympathy (LVC!) hair attack-
:::
:::WOW!, I've always been amazed at the difference between the type2 list
:::and
:::the Vanagon list! This kind of thread would have gotten several folks
:::banished from type2. Years ago I was booted from type2, had no idea why.
:::I
:::emailed a list admin to ask what was going on, he replied that I had
:::posted
:::a message about a Coleman propane heater! I replied back-So? A lot of us
:::use propane heaters when camping and even when driving. The reply came
:::back
:::"PROPANE HEATERS ARE NOT VW BUSES" and the warning to stay on topic or
:::I'd
:::be booted again (he let me back on). Two weeks later the same admin
:::posted
:::a message about bike racks. I was tempted to send him an email saying
:::"BIKE
:::RACKS ARE NOT VW BUSES, PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC", but I didn't. He is long
:::gone from type2, I'm sure he is now the president of a HOA telling people
:::what colors they paint their mailboxes. Anyway, I don't mind the
:::looseness
:::of the rules here at all! Vanagon content: I went to Lowes this weekend
:::and
:::bought stainless steel screws to replace all the rusted ones on my'84
:::(and
:::even the ones that haven't rusted yet). Lowes has a pretty good selection
:::of stainless hardware. Jeff
:::
:::Jeff Stewart
:::fonman4277@earthlink.net
:::http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/vwcampersmidatlantic/
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