Date:         Sun, 5 Mar 2023 13:16:28 -0500
Reply-To:     Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Instrument cluster tab repair
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Yeah this topic comes up every couple years. I've been one to lobby for
it.  Convert the list to a google group or some other modern free platform
like I have done with the tiny email list of friends that I have run since
we moved from GEnie to "the internet." Those who run this list are/were not
interested, and it's theirs to decide so that's fine. This list runs on
antique software on a single server in someone's house. The number of
users/messages continue to decline. I suppose one day it will go poof and
be gone
Edward

On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 1:04 PM Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Funny how this all comes around. Ten years ago, I was lobbying for the
> ability to post photos as that was an option at the time, during one of our
> major switchovers. I argued that it would make us more effective at
> communication which part, where, how, etc. The purists would hear none of
> it. Where are they now? Did they die off? I think they all migrated to
> Facebook when they got the chance and this list suffered for it. But here
> we have a real discussion, not the morass-like structure of FB which is
> like a river--anything put into it floats downstream to never be seen
> again, the one-upsmanship, the smartassery of of internet anonimity. Just
> wish we could have both.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 11:31 AM Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
> >  Yes Dean....you are on to something good.  Google Photos is an excellent
> > passageway.  OK....next step is to have all of this happen.  Seamlessly.
> > Hardly a thought.  That is why Facebook is so successful and popular.
> Not
> > us Vanagon Folks....but in general, people are lazy.
> >
> >     On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 09:25:45 AM PST, OlRivrRat <
> > olrivrrat@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >  On 5 Mar , 2023, at 9:50 AM, Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes Dean, that thing works!  Could absolutely see all of the detail.
> So
> > marvelous.  Now...we have got to find a way to transmit this knowledge to
> > the rest of the gang.  So that this stuff can become a common occurrence.
> > Doing so, will absolutely transform this List....in a good way.
> > >
> >
> >     Maybe if all of us have access to Google Photos, a GerryVanagon
> account
> >
> > could be established & SignIn info made available to All Interested ~
> >
> >     Albums can be created within the Account, if need be, for various
> > subject
> >
> > matters like Parts, Maint’, Accessories, Trips ~
> >
> >     Flickr is also another option & I suspect there are many others ~
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>