Date:         Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:10:16 EDT
Reply-To:     KENWILFY@AOL.COM
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From:         KENWILFY@AOL.COM
Subject:      Vanagon List Traffic (please help!)
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I hate to be the one to say this (as I will surely be flamed by a thousand
torches) but we have had a bunch of either goofy, unneccesary, or totally
off-topic posting as of late.  I know I am not the List Admin but I want to
help people on this list with thier VANAGONS.  Off-topic postings are great
on Friday and I love them.  Even the occasional posting during the week is
not bad, but constant posting about racism, etc. gets bad when you have to
sort through 150 emails a day.
Also a few listmembers like to get new screen names (like Gordita70 and
One-Born@Every-Minute.com) and ask goofy questions that are not meant to be
serious only stir things up or whatever.  This might be fine on Friday but do
we have to have this going on constantly during the week?
So please if you have a problem with someone in something off-color they said
please settle this off-list first.  If they won't respond then go to the
List-Admin, but threads that go on and on about off-topic stuff is bad for
the list and drives people who really need help with thier vans, off the list.
Finally please stop forwarding Mrs. Smith's 3rd grade class project (fake),
the email tax (fake), and other chain mails about sick kids, internet
snowballs, etc to the List.  These may be new to you but I have seen them a
million times before, they are totally off-topic (so if you are going to
forward them at least wait until Friday) and they not only congest this list
but also bog down the internet in general.
OK, I will now don the plaid, fire retardant, suit fresh from the cleaners!
Ken Wilford
Van-Again
John 3:16