Sounds correct to me.  Just don't mention guns, gun control, politics,
religion, sex, [well, OK, mention sex], government control/interference, the
south, the north, the east, the Kiwis, the Aussies, or anything beginning
with a letter and you'll be OK.

Mike
Still screaming in frustration trying to move Quicken records from IBM to
MAC.  May they both roast in hell, or San Bernardino, same thing.

----- Original Message -----
From: John Rodgers <jhrodgers@CHARTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: i started this stupid Thing thread....

> The list membership is pretty good about policing its own ranks, and when
things get
> out of hand the membership recognizes it and says something about it,
usually
> sufficient to the point that in the old days, Coyote (newbies probably
don't know
> him), our previous moderator, would kill the thread. If it was truly
obnoxious, he
> wouldn't wait, and using his own judgment would kill a thread. That is
what he was
> there to do. And if someone was truly a butt about things Coyote would
deal with
> him/her) as well, usually in the form of banishment from the list. And Tom
> Carrington, present moderator(pehaps not the correct choice of word here)
does the
> same thing occasionally. But pretty much overall the list stays centered
and it moves
> along. Only when a topic really starts moving off in the wrong direction
and doesn't
> stick to the rules within reasonable bounds does any action have to be
taken.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
>
>
> "jay m." wrote:
>
> > ...and now i'm ending it.
> >
> > okay, this is getting ridiculous.
> >
> > i've been on this list for about a year, often contributing privately,
> > almost never contributing (or asking questions) publicly.  as so many
> > other people have pointed out, people on the list hold an amazing volume
> > of knowledge about vanagons, other VWs, and vehicles in general.  and
they
> > feel free to share that knowledge, whether it's about VWs, Audis,
> > Porsches, or even those guys with the Econoline and the Suburban.
> >
> > so, in my opinion, my short, to-the-point email asking for advice about
> > another type of VW should be acceptable.  if nothing else it's at least
as
> > acceptable as email about campgrounds, rest area murders (two recent
> > threads), not to mention the old repetitive threads that we've seen over
> > and over again (discussions about vendors, tires, bike racks, guns in
> > vanagons, whatever).
> >
> > i clearly stated the subject of the email.  if you aren't interested,
> > delete it.  it's not that hard.
> >
> > it's interesting that i got about 15 private and a couple public
responses
> > from people about the Thing.  in contrast, there's been a flood of
public
> > posts ranting about whether the email is off-topic.  is that really how
> > you feel like spending your energy?  the complaints have created much
more
> > clutter than the original question and responses.
> >
> > okay.  now i'm done.  i'm staying on the list, but i have a much lower
> > opinion of some of you than i did before.
> >
> > --jay
> >
> > ps- thanks for everybody that offered information.  it was a good
> > supplement to the research that i had already done.
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Leon Korkin wrote:
> > >
> > > This is strange that somebody asking for info on Thing can not do
simple search
> > > on Thing and get more info then he can read in a month directly from
people
> > > driving Thing and knowing Thing so we are again littering
> > > the list with useless mail to delete...
> > > Leon
> > > 85 Subwagen Westy
>