Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:52:48 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
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From: John Rodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: For Ben T - Where has everyone gone?
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Well, my two cents. It feels like I hve been here on the Vanagon List
since The BIG Bang! Of course not quite the case, but almost. Don't know
what I would have done without. The camaraderie, and the chatter, the
patient explnations and working thru problems with list help, has brought
me a great deal of pleasure with my ownership of my various Vanagon. My
thanks to everyone who has participated.
I would hate to see this list motph into something else, because this list
is the most direct way to meet up with fellow vanogon owners and
vendor/supporters that I know of. The one and only other list the compares,
that I know of, is an art list to which I subscribe that has 8000 odd
members. A while back they all voted on whether to change the format. The
vote was no. They all voted to stick with the LISTSERV SOFTWARE and format.
I hope we do that. Otherwise, I think TheVanagon List will go in decline
and disappear. When you have a basic good thing, why change it. Some think
I'M old fogey. Not so. Technology can be helpful, but not in all cases.
Thus it is with the Listserv and the Vanagon List. Long may it Live!!!
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 2:53 PM Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with the restriction. If we want to spam we can wait until Friday
> or get on fakebook.
>
> Cheers,
> Sudhir
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 3:08 PM David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Please do not lift the restriction. There are other media for other
> > stuff. Just my thought on that matter. mcneely
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:52 AM Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > *"I too miss the chatter."*
> > >
> > > hi Jim,
> > >
> > > if you don't mind a suggestion...I know this board is for vanagon
> > > discussion only, excepting Friday which we can discuss anything we
> > like...
> > > I'd suggest lifting the restriction the *"vanagon discussion only"* and
> > > allowing members to discus anything they like, any day. As an example,
> > if I
> > > come across something interesting or funny but not related to
> > VW/vanagon, I
> > > have to wait till Friday to post.. then there's big chance that I
> forgot
> > it
> > > completely and not posting anything at all...
> > >
> > > so my idea by lifting the restriction will allow more traffic on the
> > board
> > > and more chats...
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > dan
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 8:37 PM Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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