Date:         Wed, 21 May 2008 12:39:47 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: New platform-www.vanagon.us.com?
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Which brings us in a roundabout way back to the original point of these
threads:

A couple of times a year Gerry goes down and somebody has to go find the guy
that has the machine and get him to go kick it.

The hardware is getting old, the software has been old and the whole thing
is slow and getting slower.

A sizable chunk of the internet in America cannot get email from Gerry
because AT&T has decided it is spam.

The guy that has the will and the responsibility to administer the list
doesn't have the means to do it properly.

Did I miss anything?

Is there anybody out there than can catch up to Tom C. and have a face to
face with him?
It seems that the fundamental solution lies in getting him to hand over the
machine, or at least the drive(s) it lives on, as was originally planned.

Cya,
Robert

On 5/20/08, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
>
> Good to know that many like the simple e-mail system.
>
> The other list I'm on that has the 8,000 or so people all voted to stay
> with the e-mail listserv system. They upgraded from like version 1.5 or
> something like that to 14.5 or so. Big jump. But everybody is happy.
> There is something about the directness of the e-mail list that keeps
> the community closer together. To me it is so simple to use.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> John Runberg wrote:
>
>> Huh. who woulda thought people loved the volume of email so much :) ?
>>
>> Alternate position (at least to most I've read) -- use forum software
>> that emails new posts out to those that want them. In a perfect
>> world, allow people to post from email. Alright, who's first to swing
>> at me?
>>
>> Seriously, there are a couple distinct benefits to a more modern
>> system (note, I didn't say forum, just something more modern).
>>
>> - ability to post pictures
>> - ability to do a decent search in a reasonable amount of time
>> - possibly a large reduction in duplicate posts (tires, coolant, etc...)
>> - ability to link to older posts / threads that answer a common question
>> - ability to easily ignore topics that don't interest you (instead of
>> wading through page after page of it)
>>
>> Full Moon Bus Club (if someone mentioned it already, I'm sorry.
>> Haven't been keeping up on my Gerry) works really well using a forum
>> and honestly I think it's better in some ways and not as good in others.
>>
>> To each their own...
>>
>> john
>>
>>
>>