Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1998 01:17:02 -0400
Reply-To:     Donald Baxter <dbax@MINDSPRING.COM>
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From:         Donald Baxter <dbax@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Demographics, CD/archives and pettiness
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>Tim as usual has things right to the point even if he is a hot head at times
>8-)
>
>Same here, I've been on this list/lists a damn long time, never have I
>considered my advice or my actual physical help to friends anything other
>than free and for public domain.  This whole thing saddens me, like I'd said
>recently the spirit that started this thing seems dead, probably died back
>about the time we split, now factions running every which way, rules by
>whim, assholes flaming left and right.  IT IS SAD.  I WISH WE COULD ALL JUST
>GET ALONG (and anyone who knows me knows how corny that is coming from me,
>but I mean it)
>
>
i certainly have been more interested in reading people demographics, even
if they do turn into interesting biographies, than reading about the rights
to what someone posts to the list.  It seems that most of us get along
quite well, in fact.  The list seems to have less dissent than others I
receive where people fight over treatment options and feel offended if
someone is doing something different.  I've been on the list for over three
years now, and if someone wants to use what I have written, they are
welcome (I don't have many problems with my van so I don't post much
anymore--and I read it sporadically).

Perhaps it's time to get listmembers to sign a waiver to permit things like
CDs of Vanagon archives to be published.  A complicated task for sure.  I,
for one, am sorry that it won't happen--it could be quite useful to me.

Anyway, the list is still full of useful information and experiences and
seems far from dead.
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Donald Baxter   Atlanta, Georgia        dbax@mindspring.com
                                dab1@jhk.com
                                donald.a.baxter@cpmx.saic.com

"It's not the end of civilization--it is, however, the end of civility."
                        --Mrs. Cage (as played by Anne Bancroft)