Welcome Joe!

Glad to have you aboard.

David has clearly stated that religion and politics are out of bounds but
since it IS Friday perhaps we can assist with bringing your wife around to a
Vanagon state of mind.  Many of us have been there and I'd bet this varied
group has as many Vanagon relationship tricks as we have Vanagon mechanical
tricks.

I know one fellow whose much loved daily driver Vanagon is a bit rough
around the edges so he wisely keeps a picked over parts van in his driveway
as subtle reminder for his spouse who's oh so thankful she doesn't have to
drive something as ugly as THAT!

We're here for you, Man.  ;-)

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Joe Luther
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 11:05 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: New to list and to Vanagons

Thanks.  I'm an admin and resident greybeard on a regional VW/Audi site so
I'll read and follow the site rules and keep it clean.  I wish everyone on
our site would do the same.

I work for highly demanding and extremely intelligent Germans and I'm trying
to raise teenage boys so very little else gets me worked up.  I'm too laid
back to go caps lock on anyone regardless.

People have already been extremely helpful and welcoming I'm sure that will
continue.  I wish my wife was as welcoming to another project showing up in
the driveway but you can't have everything....

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@gmail.com] On Behalf Of David Beierl
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 1:47 PM
To: Joe Luther
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM; BenT Syncro
Subject: Re: New to list and to Vanagons

At 12:53 PM 2/4/2011, Joe Luther wrote:
>Hey everybody -

Welcome, mate.  The natives are generally pretty friendly here.  Ben Tan
<syncro@gmail.com> in, roughly speaking, San Francisco, and I in Providence
RI are the moderators.  If you have a problem or a question or complaint
about procedures or about someone's behavior, please speak to either or both
of us.  We believe you're entitled to civility and also responsible to be
civil here, and this is a family list covering at least four generations so
we keep the language clean.  There are some folks here who know quite a bit
about air-cooled Vanagons, and of course there's much that's common to all
Vanagons; so I hope we can help you out as needed and that you'll feel part
of a community.  Topics are technical and community/usage related to
T3/Transporter/Vanagon; OT discussions allowed on Fridays.  Coarseness is
always out of bounds and we do not discuss politics or religion.  The list
is worldwide, but the great bulk of the members live in the US and Canada.
Again, welcome.

Yours,
David