Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 07:51:59 -0500
Reply-To: "Jim. Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: "Jim. Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: For Ben T - Where has everyone gone?
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Some of us are still here, waiting patiently for the next message, aware of the limitations of facebook but enjoying it, too, inasmuch as that is possible. A mere snack compared to the heartier fare of the list of yore.
Best information resource that may have ever existed for any purpose, all things considered.
Jim in Alabama sitting outside my Westy in the morning sun with grandson inside snoring away, with the REAL list to thank for it, mostly.
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> On Jun 11, 2019 at 7:42 AM, <Eric Caron (mailto:eric.caron@icloud.com)> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> Hey Quality is more important to me then quanta. and this list provides quality information and help. Facebook is 90% unless to me.
> In 2013 when I got my vanagon the deciding factor why I got it after being without one for over 10 years is that this list was here to support me.
>
> I look at the Facebook groups now and then and it is mostly social and not helpful. And the social stuff doesn’t work for me. Constantly people making what they think are funny remarks on a photo.
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> Ugh,
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> Thank goodness for this list.
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> And keep the archives alive!
>
> Eric Caron
> 85 GL Auto
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> > On Jun 11, 2019, at 8:36 AM, Pete Owsianowski <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > I have enjoyed 17 years of following this list! Lots of great info and it’s been cool to get to know people through their bus experiences.
> >
> > Pete O
> > 1987 Westy “JoesVan”
> >
> >> On Jun 10, 2019, at 23:36, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
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> >> There are currently 490 subscribers on the gerry.vanagon.com list.
> >>
> >> I suspect that your hypothesis is correct. I admin a few other lists and where there used to be ten to a hundred posts daily, there’s now one or two a week. All gone to FB no doubt as it’s more ‘immediate.’ WetWesties for example, 2008 saw an avg of 299.8 messages/month. 2018, the avg is 32.5/mo.
> >>
> >> I too miss the chatter. I also miss that chatter being archived.
> >>
> >> For historical purposes, the following is the first post to the Vanagon list. (There was a vanagon-L list that preceded it, but those archives are lost to the sands of time as I’m sure this list’s archives will be eventually.)
> >>
> >> We’ve had a good run.
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>
> >> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 15:01:54 -0600 (CST)
> >> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
> >> From: Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti>
> >> Subject: New listprocessor
> >>
> >> This is a rather trepid announcement of my installation of the
> >> listprocessor software.
> >>
> >> The list is still called vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu, but you can send
> >> help,subscribe,unsubscribe,set vanagon digest messages to
> >> listserv@lenti.med.umn.edu
> >>
> >> As soon as I get a welcome message together, I'll post it to the list
> >> so you can forward it to your friends.
> >>
> >> If there are any problems, I'll probably see them, but please send mail
> >> to me as gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu if you see them first or you need some
> >> help with something.
> >>
> >> Also, if you can spare a few seconds to quickly respond to this note so I
> >> know it got out there somewhere, that'd be nice (I can do that while the
> >> list is still small. <smile>)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Gerry
> >> Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu> U of MN Med.School.Admin 6-5379
> >> 1984 VW Vanagon Waterboxer 1915
> >>
> >>> On Jun 10, 2019, at 3:32 PM, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I figured that this was best sent to a moderator, hence Ben T in subject line.
> >>> The Vanagon list seems to have shrunk to just one or two posts a day, and I'm wondering where everyone has gone. I'm thinking they have all gone to a FaceBook page, but not sure which one.
> >>> I don't do FaceBook, but I checked my wife's account and there is several Vanagon groups; one with 11,000 members! Is that it?
> >>> There was even a small Vanagon diesel group, and what really surprised me was a Central Florida Vanagon group with a couple of hundred members. I didn't know that there was that many Vanagons here in Florida.
> >>> I'd love to know where everyone has gone because I miss the Vanagon chatter. Especially as I am searching for a van again now.
> >>> Thanks, Anthony (NE FL)
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