Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:10:05 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Dex-Cool . . . I hesitate to ask this
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GMail solves all of the above problems without any effort on my part and
also keeps all the posts in a thread together so I don't repeat the advice
that another Listee just offered.
I wish they'd sell me a copy for my home email client!
On 10/26/07, Sam Conant <samcvt@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> This is the email cleanup program I use to get rid of those >>><<<<<
> pests.
> I didn't apply it to this response. The program is simple to use,
> straight-forward, unpretentious, and not loaded with any other
> "activities"
> or marketing ploys. It downloads quickly and I've got a shortcut which I
> can activate (Run) when needed for specific copy, paste, clean, copy and
> then send activities.
> Sam Conant
> Colchester, Vermont
>
> This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from
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>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Elliott" <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
> To: "Sam Conant" <samcvt@COMCAST.NET>
> Cc: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Dex-Cool . . . I hesitate to ask this
>
>
> > If one wants to forward one of those tedious "forward this to all your
> > friends" call-to-action or "isn't this kitten cute" emails, then
> stripping
> > out massively-nested ">>" quotes before sending is only polite. But when
> > replying to the reply of a replied-to message, quoting is a Good Thing
> so
> > we know who said what.
> >
> > AOL users often need assistance when it comes to quoting. I don't think
> it
> > defaults to quoting. As I understand it, if they first highlight the
> text
> > they want to quote before clicking on "reply," the text gets pasted into
> > the reply with the quote marks.
> >
> > --
> > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> > KG6RCR
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/26/2007 7:27 AM Sam Conant wrote:
> >
> >> There is a free, easy to download and use program called
> "emailstripper"
> >> which can be used to clean up messages before forwarding them
> onward. It
> >> gets rid of all those ">" which tend to be a pain the more a note is
> >> passed
> >> onward.
> >>
> >> I used it to clean up the response by Mike S and the attached messages
> >> which
> >> came in with his response. SamC ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Mike S" mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM
> >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 7:26 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Dex-Cool . . . I hesitate to ask this
> >>
> >>
> >> The original message has been quoted below, including a meaningless
> >> attribution to "LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM," no quoted text in the
> >> original,
> >> and your signature.
> >>
> >> If you don't properly attribute messages, trim them, and do not use the
> >> standard convention of quoting the message you are responding to (">"
> in
> >> first column of quoted text) to make it clear who is speaking, then
> such
> >> confusion is bound to continue. The AOL client should support that.
> >>
> >>
> >> In a message dated 24/10/2007 4:36:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
> >>
> >> Most every 'bad' story I've read thus far, including the links you
> >> quote,
> >> was related to a GM product failure. Hmm. Inferior quality materials,
> a
> >> trademark of GM products in the US. Another thing common to many of
> these
> >> 'failures' is the fact that the owners allowed coolant levels to go
> >> unchecked and were found to be extremely low. Boiling coolant would not
> >> be
> >> good in any vehicle, no matter what the make or coolant used.
> >>
> >> I've seen the innards of many VW's using Dexcool for the years
> >> (including my own) and there is absolutely no evidence of any
> problems.
> >>
> >> It's also a well-known fact that VWs leak coolant eventually around
> all
> >> plastic flanges. They warp and crack, then leak. It isn't the coolant
> >> causing this, for sure.
> >>
> >> THANK YOU Karl, well said !
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Frank Condelli Almonte, Ontario, Canada '87 Westy & Lionel Trains
> >> (_Collection for sale_
> >> (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/trainsal.htm) ) _Frank Condelli &
> >> Associates_
> >> (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/busindex.html) - Vanagon/Vanagon
> Westfalia
> >> Service in the Ottawa Valley _Vanagon Stainless Steel Exhaust Systems_
> >> (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/stebro.htm) _BusFusion_
> >> (http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm) a VW Camper camping
> event,
> >> Almonte, ON, June 07 ~ 10, 2007
> >>
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--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
http://subyjake.googlepages.com/
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