We both know that a good 90% of subjects on the Vanagon list are
repeated, beat to death, resurrected again in two days.
Starting a 2003 beginning date on an archive file would be a simple
solution but there would still be 90% fluff and 10% genuine helpful info.
Seems that if users had a keyword to insert in the subject line or first
text line that told the server to hold it in archives or discard it to a
general history file there could be a rapid growth helpful archive.
Personally I've found lots of very good info in the archives but it does
take some concentrated effort to edit through to the meat of the subject.
Many of the most knowledgeable members are no longer on the list and
unless you have a reference to their name they are hard to ferret out in
the archives.
I get many Pmail relating to Air Cooled engines.
People who write me directly normally find me in the archives.
I don't survey them but there are normally referrals to something I
posted in the past.
It would be interesting to find out how many people lurk on the list and
never post.
I've got to admit that there are times things get a little rowdy here.

Stan Wilder
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then forgot the archives, start it fresh, and use input from existing
members so its made collectively...

it would be nice to be able to type your own info online and have it
saved... like 180,000 miles for the oil change, air filer change...

>From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>

>
>I'm not trying to quash your program.
>Several of us decided to scour the archives and take the contents for
>specific subjects and create a hot list of the life saving subjects that
>most Vanagon owners would truly treasure because they constitute

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