Any relation to cane toad?

Karl Wolz
 
 

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] 
|On Behalf Of Mike Miller
|Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 8:38 AM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: List Member Count
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|Count me as a No on FB, also Twitter, and any other 'social network'. 
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|Old and curmudgeonly I am. Me and cane rattler.
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|Mike from Cotati
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| From: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 8:20 AM
|Subject: Re: List Member Count
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|Yes, like John said - the Vanagon List FB page has been around 
|for sometime
|now, a year or more and was started by a list member. It 
|hasn't had much
|activity at all until the last week or so - I think there have 
|been maybe
|10 - 12 requests to join the group in the last week.
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|I use FB a lot and in many ways some of it's features would be 
|great for
|this forum. Topics would be in a discussion format - pictures 
|are easily
|shared, etc. I use FB for several other smaller groups and 
|have 2 different
|accounts (a personal account and then a sterile nothing too personal
|account to keep in touch with our marching band kids). FB 
|works great for
|me.
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|That being said I can see where FB could be a major pain for a 
|group like
|this.
|1) Of the 800 members, I would be willing to say it's possible 
|up to 1/3 of
|our membership probably avoids FB like the plague.(just a wild guess)
|2) As Roger mentioned there is the control factor - things 
|posted on FB are
|for all intents stored at FB and really "owned" by FB.
|3) FB is mostly all or nothing - at least with the list as it is I can
|easily save the e-mail I want to save and pitch the rest.
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|This list is great really. Sure we have our moments but that 
|comes with any
|community/family - and of course there is the eternal social 
|vs. technical
|debate. I think it ebbs and flows (we are in a technical 
|period for sure).
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|It would be nice to have an easier way to share pictures - but I don't
|think it's a list killer issue - we've gone this far without it� :)
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|Oh, and I have to train myself to stop trying to "like" list 
|postings like
|I do on FB - man that's a bad sign :)
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|Thanks,
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|Jeff
|'85 GL (Gertie)
|'78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus