Date:         Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:25:30 -0700
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Joe Chanin <joe.chan@ix.netcom.com>
Subject:      Re: List Split Announcement [IMPORTANT]

I'll second this

It is a sad sad day.......


joe

76' Westy and single list lover

At 12:37 PM 7/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Gerry,
>
>I appreciate the effort someone else is going to put into an aircooled van 
>list...however, I think that there has ALWAYS been something special on this 
>list which transcends air v water v T1 vT2 v T3 v T4 vans, and I would hate 
>to see this disapear when the split window/loaf/early brick crowd has spun 
>off onto another list....
>
>You said that this is in partial response to those who had problems with the 
>amount of traffic....to those I say (to play on H. Truman)..."If you can't 
>stand the traffic, get off the list". 
>
>There are much more of us out there, I'm sure, who like the list and how it 
>is run, and who would rather have the list stay the way it has always been 
>handled.
>
>Could you please make the split optional? Besides, think of poor Richard 
>Palmer, he'll have to scrap his stock of V@L shirts and have to revert to 
>ones with late Vanagons and EVs only.
>
>PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON'T SPLIT THE LIST!!!
>
>I'll buy you extra beer!!!!!!
>
>
>We are loosing our sense of "community" here....
>
>
>Ric
>
>
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