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Subject:Re: [Syncro] Was there ever a 2.1WBX Turbo option?
From:Clint Kolda
Date:Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:54:51 -0700

Follow this link to the South Africa brochure for the 1983 Turbo Waterboxer.  Looks pretty sweet.  I especially like the 80's graphics.

  http://vwpix.terlinden.com/

On a side note, do any other Vanagon Digest readers get the following text attached to 50%-75% of all messages lately?

  Your message  to vanagon-request@GERRY.VANAGON.COM has been  forwarded
to
the "list owners" (the people who manage the vanagon list). If you
wanted
to reach a human being, you used the correct procedure and you can
ignore
the remainder of this  message. If you were trying to  send a command
for
the computer to execute, please read on.

The  vanagon list  is managed  by  a ListServ  server. ListServ
commands
should    always    be   sent    to    the    "ListServ"   address,
ie
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM. ListServ never tries to process messages
sent
to the vanagon-request address; it simply forwards them to a human
being,
and acknowledges receipt with the present message.

The "listname-request" convention originated on  the Internet a long
time
ago. At  the time, lists were  always managed manually, and  this
address
was defined as an alias for the  person(s) in charge of the mailing
list.
You would write to the  "listname-request" address to ask for
information
about the list, ask  to be added to the list,  make suggestions about
the
contents and policy, etc. Because this  address was always a human
being,
people  knew and  expected to  be  talking to  a  human being,  not to
a
computer.  Unfortunately, some  recent  list  management packages
screen
incoming  messages  to  the  "listname-request" address  and  attempt
to
determine whether they are requests to  join or leave the list. They
look
for words such as "subscribe", "add",  "leave", "off", and so on. If
they
decide your message is  a request to join or leave  the list, they
update
the list automatically;  otherwise, they forward the message  to the
list
owners. Naturally, this means that if  you write to the list owners
about
someone else's  unsuccessful attempts to  leave the list, you  stand
good
chances of  being automatically removed  from the list, whereas  the
list
owners will never receive your message. No one really benefits from
this.
There is no  reliable mechanism to contact a human  being for
assistance,
and you can never  be sure whether your request will  be interpreted as
a
command or as a message to the list owners. This is why ListServ uses
two
separate addresses, one for the people in  charge of the list and one
for
the computer  that runs it.  This way you  always know what  will
happen,
especially if you are writing in a language other than English.

In  any case,  if your  message was  a ListServ  command, you  should
now
resend it  to LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM. The  list owners know  that
you
have  received this  message  and may  assume that  you  will resend
the
command  on your  own. You  will find  instructions for  the most
common
administrative requests below.

+---------------------+
|  TO LEAVE THE LIST  |
+---------------------+

Write to LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM and, in the text of your message
(not
the subject line), write: SIGNOFF vanagon

+--------------------+
|  TO JOIN THE LIST  |
+--------------------+

Write to LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM and, in the text of your message
(not
the subject line), write: SUBSCRIBE vanagon

+------------------------+
|  FOR MORE INFORMATION  |
+------------------------+

Write to LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM and, in the text of your message
(not
the subject  line), write:  "HELP" or "INFO"  (without the  quotes).
HELP
will give you a  short help message and INFO a list  of the documents
you
can order.

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