I'm pretty sure that alternatives to the old newsgroups are taking their toll on the newsgroups, but I doubt that they will replace them.

It also may be that as time goes on there are fewer and fewer Vanagons on the road, thus there is going to be less need to talk about them.

I still think that her newsgroup like Vanagon List is the best arrangement to satisfy the needs of the home mechanic and trouble shooter. I don't see Facebook or Pinterest being very good at that.

Jim
> On Oct 3, 2014, at 8:40 AM, KI4TLF <ki4tlf@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> I don't know if you've checked the spam folder for your mail, but I was getting 5 to 20 messages a day in there from the group.  As I've marked them Not Spam, the number seems to be decreasing, with more coming into my inbox.
> 
> GregM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Don Hanson
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 8:00 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Crickets..
> 
> Recently someone wrote of another Vanagon site that people were switching
> to.   Also recently, the message count in my Vanagon List mail has declined
> radically.  Is this the case, List-wide? or did Gmail revise my spam filters or something?  Did everyone flee over to another forum?  Where is that, again?
> 
>   I am not even getting enough Vanagon list mail to read while I microwave my first coffee  in the morning, I used to have to cut my list reading
> short without finishing all the interesting posts.    Is list traffic in
> radical decline?