Make it free and charge a "shipping and handling fee"

Or make it on a Donation  basis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Rountree" <syncro87@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Vanagon Archives, the DVD Edition?

> Re: Vanagon Archives, the DVD Edition?
>
> >>Seems like an awfully good idea to me.
> I would certainly be willing to pay for the info as its every bit as
> valuable as the bentley guide.
>
> This is where the problem comes in...."paying"... all the lawyers watching
> this list eyes just lit up.
>
> Now I'm not saying I've ever seen one.....BUT.......Like Clinton I didn't
> inhale either;^)
>
> But let's say there is a CD out there now, that has a collection of...
> say...the ETKA5....
> Acrobat .pdf files. websites of parts catalogs like they are on line, but
> you don't have to be on line, and they download real fast.... some
important
> manuals scanned to .pdf's... the FI manual, the syncro manual etc. all the
> hose diagrams as ..jpg's .... the repair shop list.... the Vanagon Squad
> list etc.....The neat things about some of the old information on old
> things, is they don't change. Lets say some serious lurker.. saved every
> email that was helpful with a good explanation and put those into folders
> with headings like, capacitor fix, tires, oil, head gaskets, 2nd battery
> etc....how would we find this silver bearded masked man who flashes V
signs
> at every bus that passes him while humming along to Dead songs?... this
> outlaw willing to flaunt everyone's online rights for the benefit of the
> collective good. Hmmm? Could there be this mystery rescue CD, to be used
> only in distress? Kept in a glove box, in it's black velvet Zorro case,
only
> to be opened when in trouble....Sounds like something one of those social
> mined Canadians would do.
>
> Sounds like a legal problem just waiting to be stamped out.....I for one
> would not like being the volunteer archivist who gets stamped on.... But I
> go along with George... lets get a volunteer...put a bulls eye on his/her
> chest and wave them up over the trenches and see what happens. And test
> George's theory.
>
> >>I have found only
> one truth without a caveat: whenever volunteers are involved, the depth of
> low standards has no limit.
>
> I like this guys humor