I tend to agree and people are voting with their mouse clicks.

I like Facebook, but for communicating with friends.  Nobody on the list wants to see pictures of my kids (and vice versa) so I am reluctant to ‘friend’ vanagon owners unless I know them personally.

It’s too bad that Ron isn’t more active with vanagon.com <http://vanagon.com/>.  I wonder if he has ever considered giving the domain away.

I prefer an email format, but posting pictures and video/audio on Facebook couldn’t be easier.  

List traffic has gone from over 100 messages a day, to the single digits.  At this rate the list is basically going to become an archive I’m sorry to say.

Jeff in Winnipeg

> On Mar 14, 2015, at 7:47 PM, kenneth wilford (Van-Again) <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> 
> I think part of the issue is that the Vanagon.con site isn't attracting new
> members.  That site used to be the go to for new Vanagon owners.  It hasn't
> changed in several years and that is hurting the list.  It needs to to
> brought up to date.  A WordPress site with a forum, articles, pictures,
> maps of Vanagon shops, etc.
> 
> Just my opinion.
> 
> Ken
> On Mar 14, 2015 8:17 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
>> 
>