Well, That is an interesting thought. AI that could search through all kinds of vanagon info and come up with suggestions. I actually think that would be great. And our list archives would likely be a great source of the more useful info. Eric Caron
> On Nov 25, 2023, at 3:29 AM, Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM> wrote: > > I have every email from day 1 in 1994 for most email lists related to > vanagon and I was wondering if I should use these to feed an AI engine, > along with all the pdfs of all the manuals, of which there must be 50 > related to Vanagon. > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 1:07 PM Ben T <syncro@gmail.com> wrote: > >> RIP Tom Forhan. As our vans age, so do we. We’ve been losing friends every >> year and it’s happening more frequently. >> >> >> BenT >> >>> On Nov 23, 2023, at 4:04 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote: >>> >>> The vanagon list started in early April of 1994 hosted on the University >> of Minnesota’s lenti.med server. Gerry Skerbitz was our first admin. >>> >>> The list split happened a couple years later… Checking archives: >>> >>> http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9607&L=vanagon&P=R21349 >>> >>> 10 Jul 1996 >>> >>> So yeah, Almost 30 years ago. >>> >>> Looks like my first post in June of 1995 was telling folks about a >> Syncro (misspelled) for sale in the next town over. Tom Forhan flew out >> from the east coast and bought it. Had it the rest of his life. (It was a >> good one and so was he.) >>> >>> And that my friends, is why it’s good to have a record of where we’ve >> been. >>> >>> Jim >>> >> |
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