Date:         Sat, 18 Apr 1998 06:41:11 -0700
Reply-To:     "Backus, Brian G" <Brian.Backus@PSS.BOEING.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Backus, Brian G" <Brian.Backus@PSS.BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Remember the boring survey post?
Comments: To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM, Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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Yes, that's why I got so upset a week or two ago, and got called an
a-hole for saying that someone's survey post was boring.  There are so
many posts and I absolutely cannot read them all.  I know I shouldn't
take things so serious but to me, surveys are a waste of time.

I work with a whole lot of engineers and to many for example, they think
that the only way to fix a flat tire is to survey the whole state on
what brand of lug wrench would work the best.  Then they'd go and buy
one only to find out that the survey they took left out the most
important question.  What size of lug wrench should be used?  (I'm
kidding)

So into the trash goes that survey and out comes the latest and greatest
survey.

I'm a family man.  I'm a factory mechanic.  I like Vanagons.  I'm not
going to dedicate my life to the things, but I can see that many people
do really take pains to "get into" them.

And I guess that's what makes this list work.  The fact that people are
willing to help each other out and take that extra time to see that each
of us get the info and tech support that we need to fix our "Peoples
Car".

So thank you to everyone who participates and even to those engineer
types.

I know they are a necessary part of getting something built right.
Arrrgh...

My apology to each of them...:~)

Brian G. Backus

In response to:

>  Given that all you folks
> >work at jobs, work on your vans, have families, and generally are
> involved
> >in living a normal life, how do you find time to read all the
> postings, or
> >even most of them.  Many days I just delete the whole digest because
> I just
> >haven't the time to download it and put it into a reader.
> >
> >Thanks for being there.  Earl from Sunny Sooke
> >
>