I dunno. Traffic on the FB groups has been steadily increasing, and think of how many times you see "check out this thread on the Samba" in these posts. It's just the way people expect the internet to work these days. There may be fewer and fewer Vanagons, but there are also fewer and fewer older owners. Somebody on one of the FB groups recently mentioned "that other forum" where people were prickly and unhelpful to newbies ... wonder who they were talking about? :/ It's unfortunate, in that there are several people that appear to use this group exclusively that make up what I consider to be the main brain trust as to deep info on these vans. I think this trend has those individuals becoming increasingly isolated from those that could use their help the most. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm pretty sure that alternatives to the old newsgroups are taking their > toll on the newsgroups, but I doubt that they will replace them. > > It also may be that as time goes on there are fewer and fewer Vanagons on > the road, thus there is going to be less need to talk about them. > > I still think that her newsgroup like Vanagon List is the best arrangement > to satisfy the needs of the home mechanic and trouble shooter. I don't see > Facebook or Pinterest being very good at that. > > Jim > > On Oct 3, 2014, at 8:40 AM, KI4TLF <ki4tlf@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > > > I don't know if you've checked the spam folder for your mail, but I was > getting 5 to 20 messages a day in there from the group. As I've marked > them Not Spam, the number seems to be decreasing, with more coming into my > inbox. > > > > GregM > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf > Of Don Hanson > > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 8:00 AM > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > Subject: Crickets.. > > > > Recently someone wrote of another Vanagon site that people were switching > > to. Also recently, the message count in my Vanagon List mail has > declined > > radically. Is this the case, List-wide? or did Gmail revise my spam > filters or something? Did everyone flee over to another forum? Where is > that, again? > > > > I am not even getting enough Vanagon list mail to read while I > microwave my first coffee in the morning, I used to have to cut my list > reading > > short without finishing all the interesting posts. Is list traffic in > > radical decline? >
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