Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:44:06 -0500
Reply-To: "Anthony L. Mourkas" <frankenstein@TELPLUS.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: "Anthony L. Mourkas" <frankenstein@TELPLUS.NET>
Subject: Re: The List
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>I personally throw down a challenge to the members of your list, that
>being "Please come in from the dark ages and see the light of your future
>and of your COMMUNITY. Make this not a list of a few but the future of
>all those persons world wide who wish to enjoy the pleasures of others
>sharing a beloved experience.
Frankly, while I appreciate these comments, I respectfully disagree. I
like our "community" just as it is. I MUCH prefer an email list over web
based solutions. An email list in my humble opinion is MUCH faster to
navigate, sort, delete, archive, and respond to at one's convenience. As
for what I am interested in, I read it, if it is something I want to
save, I archive it in my email database (3500+ entries). If it is
something I don't care about, I use the delete key. Simple, effective,
and elegant.
The Vanagon list posts are available to all in the on the web in the
Vanagon.com archive and if the traffic on the listserver is not to your
liking, the same information is available to you online. There are many
other websites out there with a wealth of information on VW Vanagons that
I visit to complement this list. Additionally I have corresponded and
met with many listmembers "off list" and further enhanced my enjoyment of
this "community".
If you must leave, that is a loss, but the community is a dynamic one.
People come and go all the time for their own reasons, and yet the
community still exists and survives.
This list is the primary reason my knowledge and understanding was
brought out of the dark ages and greatly increased my competence level in
dealing with ownership of these vehicles. If the list were to fold
tomorrow, I would survive, just as the person who voluntarily leaves the
list for their own reasons will survive. I would, however, experience a
sense of loss and my VW Vanagon ownership "experience" would not be as
rich and full as it is with the list in place.
Sorry to see you go, but the list is not for everyone, but as for me:
LONG LIVE VANAGON@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Best wishes,
Tony
Anthony L. Mourkas
Hampden, Maine, USA
1984 Vanagon Westfalia
1987 Vanagon GL Syncro
1991 Jetta Eco Diesel
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