Date:         Tue, 19 Jan 1999 05:39:46 -0800
Reply-To:     frank furter <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         frank furter <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Bus Depot SPAM, again!
Comments: To: Tim Smith <smitht@UNB.CA>
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If you aren't begging for an ass-load of e-mail, then why the hell are
you on 4 lists?

sheesh - the time it'll take you to delete all the responses to your
whining far outweighs the time it takes to delete ron's occasional
"helpful" posts....

Love
Mark
87 Westy
84 Scirocco



---Tim Smith <smitht@UNB.CA> wrote:
>
> Jezuuz H...
> (or pick a diety of your choice)
>
> Kent Christenson sent a nicely phrased message a couple of weeks
back how
> this list was "over the top" as far as advertising goes, and this
latest
> spamming from Salmon (below) is typical of the worst of it!  This is a
> blatant plug for his business, sugar coat it however you want to. It
was
> NOT a kind little PSA to illuminate us into the intricacies of vanagon
> filters, it was a plug, plain and simple.
>
> I too subscribe(d) to other lists, Audi, Porsche, and Off-Road, and
the
> vanagon list is the worst. Please don't reply with some anti-elitist
crap
> that 'perhaps you should stay on the LandRover?BMW/etc list, since
you can
> aford dealer parts"  There IS a problem with spam on this list, more
than
> any other list I've been on.  Something needs to be done, either go
> commercial, charge the vendors for access priveliges and monthly
> advertising rights, or simply put a block on vendors posting to the
list.
> I hate to advocate a moderated list, especially due to the workload
this
> imposes on any listmeister, but uninformative posts designed only to
sell
> product or bring attention to a vanagon related business have no
place on
> the list and need to be moderated.  Perhaps if vendors policed
themselves I
> wouldn't have to bring this non-vanagon issue up again.
>
> pissed off again by sales weasels, XOXOX, Tim Smith
>
> .......  the offending article (see at end also)
>
> Date:    Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:44:07 -0500
> From:    The Bus Depot <ron@NETCARRIER.COM>
> Subject: Re: Oilfilters 1:st oilchange
>
> Regarding the question of economical cross-references for the
expensive
> Dealer oil filters for your Vanagon:
>
> The two original oil filter suppliers to Volkswagen are Mann and
Mahle. I
> stock them under the actual manufacturers' names, rather than the
Volkswagen
> name, for much less than the dealer price.   I variously ship either
Mann or
> Mahle depending on which I can get at a better price at any given
time. They
> are interchangeable in terms of quality, and both feature the
correct flow
> characteristics for the Vanagon engine. Not all aftermarket filters
do.
>
> For the watercooled Vanagons, they are $4.29 each.  For the aircooled
> Vanagons, $3.99 each. Minimum purchase is 4.
>
> - Ron Salmon
>   The Bus Depot
>
>
> and a final note.....
>
> Just to put this deal in context I buy my wasser Bosch oilfilters for
> $4.99Cdn at my local hardware/FLAPS store. This is ~$3.25US for Bosch
> filters in a Bosch box, so $4.29 is a rip-off, and I don't have to
buy 4 at
> a time nor pay shipping.  Wake up folks, he's only in it for the
money,
> yours!
>

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