Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 08:09:18 -0900
Reply-To: Kevin J Turinsky <turinsky@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: Kevin J Turinsky <turinsky@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: The Printed Word
Yo, Volks:
Would it be easier and cheaper to just put it all on a CD? Then we could
do "local" searches...much faster, no logging online time.
Kevin...turinsky@juno.com
"Anchored, down in Anchorage---Alaska"
On Sat, 4 Apr 1998 10:10:16 -0500 "John H. Rodgers" <inua@QUICKLINK.NET>
writes:
>-- [ From: John H. Rodgers * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
>
>To my esteemed VW Van comrades on the list:
>
>Jim Davis' recent comments on oil system operation prompted this.
>
>Recently when our regular server was down, the archives were
>inaccessible,
>and there were many of us who were lost without the access.
>
>My question is this........... has there ever been consideration of
>getting
>the archived accumulation(redundant?) of experience put together in a
>printed form as a reference book?
>
>Computers are wonderful, but when appear the little green glitches
>with the
>red feathers in their caps, all hell breaks loose inside and all that
>wonderful information is not available, and even has the potential of
>being
>lost forever.........list owner/moderator gets sick, dies(heaven
>forbid! ---
>---long life please!)gets old and tired, atomic blast magnetic pulse,
>whatever!!!
>
>I have read,used, and enjoyed Muirs book over the years, and though a
>match
>for it on the vans probably would never be produced, an organized,
>indexed,
>printed complilation of all the experience and information in the
>archive
>would seem appropriate. Lot of work, but desktop publishing could
>handle
>printing, and keep cost down.
>
>A printed publication inclusive of all information up to, say, the end
>of
>1997, and then an annual update, perhaps in loose-leaf form, so it
>could be
>added to a three-ring binder would seem appropriate.
>
>Are there among us those who would purchase such a publication? I
>swear by
>my Bently's but it still falls short, and such a document would
>certainly at
>least complement the Bently.
>
>Any comment?
>
>John Rodgers
>'85 GL Driver
>
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