i am here too in Wilmington, De with Jenny (Westy 81)

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Yeah, and I admire to being pretty silent for the last while. I have been
> doing a fair bit of vanagon work and I do have some things to show for the
> effort. Things that will make Felder Industries quake in their corporate
> boots :)
>
> I hope to get back on the posting wagon and update my blog. And I do
> remember the busy days of the list back in the nineties.
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
> > On Mar 14, 2015, at 5:17 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Me too. I think part of the attrition is due to the fact that we don't
> say
> > what is just floating around on our minds until Friday, which cuts down
> on
> > general chatter, as not everyone has access on any particular day of the
> > week. Another thing is that after owning these cars as long as we have,
> > there is less general discussion about the things that go wrong with them
> > and more to-the-point guidance. I see that as a good thing. And then, of
> > course there is Facebook attrition from the list. I use FB because my job
> > requires it but I don't think all that much of it. In the Vanagon list,
> if
> > you are patient, you can find any fact about anything related to
> Vanagons.
> > With the list, your are putting your post into a huge, musty old library.
> > With Facebook, you are throwing your post into a fast-moving stream. Yes
> > you get images, but not for long. The list could be fixed in that respect
> > by allowing a server chron job to delete photos 48 hours after they are
> > posted, say, but the "purists" don't even want that. I suspect the
> > inability to share images is causing a lot of the attrition.
> >
> > Jim
>