Date:         Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:29:14 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Is anybody still on this list?
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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Yeah, and I admire to being pretty silent for the last while. I have been doing a fair bit of vanagon work and I do have some things to show for the effort. Things that will make Felder Industries quake in their corporate boots :)

I hope to get back on the posting wagon and update my blog. And I do remember the busy days of the list back in the nineties.

Alistair



> On Mar 14, 2015, at 5:17 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Me too. I think part of the attrition is due to the fact that we don't say

> what is just floating around on our minds until Friday, which cuts down on

> general chatter, as not everyone has access on any particular day of the
> week. Another thing is that after owning these cars as long as we have,
> there is less general discussion about the things that go wrong with them
> and more to-the-point guidance. I see that as a good thing. And then, of
> course there is Facebook attrition from the list. I use FB because my job
> requires it but I don't think all that much of it. In the Vanagon list, if

> you are patient, you can find any fact about anything related to Vanagons.

> With the list, your are putting your post into a huge, musty old library.
> With Facebook, you are throwing your post into a fast-moving stream. Yes
> you get images, but not for long. The list could be fixed in that respect
> by allowing a server chron job to delete photos 48 hours after they are
> posted, say, but the "purists" don't even want that. I suspect the
> inability to share images is causing a lot of the attrition.
> 
> Jim