Date:         Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:08:41 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Wallaced?
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Right now, on another newsgroup to which I subscribe, there is a great
debate going on about whether to change to a forum format or not.
Apparently, for Moderators, it makes life easier, especial if the list
is huge, as in the case of this other group - not large by some
standards, but big enough - some 5000 active members.For the moment,
it's about 50-50 about changing format or not. That one half feels like
I do. - the classic newsgroup listing allows for "living memory" to be
more active, and allows for closer personal connection. Other formats
appear not to do  this.

Again, I like our "Living Memory", which typically is made of of some
Guru's, some regulars, some not so regulars, and a few Curmudgeons. All
of to whom you can make a post, and get an almost immediate response. I
wouldn't want it any other way.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver


John Rodgers wrote:
> I kinda like "living memory". Keeps a better people to people connetion
> - and I think that is as much the lifeblood of this list as the interest
> in our beloved Vans. If that disappears, so goes the list. IMHO.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Sudhir Desai wrote:
>> the wiki is already here~
>> just hasn't been updated in a few months :D
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2008 9:12 AM, robert feller <syncro.carboncow@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> another good reason to figure out how to get this board into the
>>> modern era
>>> with forums and rss!
>>>
>>> here it comes...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 29, 2008 6:26 AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yup, ain't "living memory" wonderful?
>>>>
>>>> Makes it possible to call up such wonderful detritus as "being
>>>> Wallaced!" in a heartbeat.
>>>>
>>>> John Rodgers
>>>> 88 GL Driver
>>>>
>>>> Michael Elliott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/28/2008 4:44 PM Richard Golen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> and for a
>>>>>> week or more the traffic on this list effectively doubled...for
>>>>>> every
>>>>>> message sent to the list, all of us received a "on vacation/out of
>>>>>> office" message from Mr. Wallace.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Aye, t'was a dark and troubled time.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Shawn Feller
>>> Ohio
>>> www.carboncow.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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