Date:         Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:01:41 -0500
Reply-To:     "William W. Barker" <wbarker@NOTES.CC.BELLCORE.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "William W. Barker" <wbarker@NOTES.CC.BELLCORE.COM>
Subject:      respect - Didn't your mama teach you any manners?
Comments: cc: KENWILFY@aol.com
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Ditto Micheal.

I usually just read on the list unless I think I have something
useful to share.  Yesterday, I posted a response to a listee asking about
how to
deal with road noise in his van.  I posted simple response suggesting
that loose fiberglass insulation might be a health hazard if installed
in the walls of a vehicle.

In return I received a couple of responses, one suggesting a hidden
political agenda and condescendingly referring to me as "dude".

While this is pretty mild stuff, I also received a response with pretty
much the same opinion, but which made no attempt to insult me.
But actually dealt with the issue.

It makes me wonder how newcomers leave if they ask their first question and
get a
smart-ass reply instead of help.

Thanks,
- Wil

The repartee follows:

Re: Road Noise (Don't use fiberglass)  (Document link not converted)
Volks,
I'm not sure if anyone else already responded to this..
Adding insulation is a good project but I'm pretty sure VW
would have used some other less toxic to the lungs, insulation.

Especially with all the air movement in a van, this would be a really
bad idea.

- Wil

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From:  "Robert A. Alexander" <satcong@vol.com>

Will

- Are we about to get a "politically correct" lecture on how
fiberglas insulation causes lung cancer???  Please don't.  It can't.
Fibres ain't small enough, dude, plus it's inert.

BOB
"Robert A. Alexander" <satcong@vol.com>
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Wil,

great to hear from you and how are you doing?  I have removed the
interior on my '91 Carat and it has fiberglass insulation in the walls.  I
have also seen a Wolfsburg edition Vanagon (in Ron Salmon's yard) that was
stripped of its interior which also had fiberglass insulation so I am
pretty
sure that this is what VW used to insulate thier vehicles.

Ken Wilford
Van-Again
John 3:16
PS I am not saying that this is the best stuff to use but that is what VW
used.

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