Been on this List since 1998.  You folks have been great all of those
years.
I am an early adopter of technology.  However I really just hate Facebook
and the interaction there gets too chaotic for me.  You can just respond to
someone's question, there is a barrage of answers, some of them just for
fun, others seriously trying to help, but it is all kind of overwhelming to
me.  Maybe I am just getting old, but I still embrace new tech and
incorporate it into my life.  Just find Facebook mostly annoying rather
than helpful.  This list has always been a big help to me starting with my
first Vanagon I bought for $25, up the present day.

Thanks for being there.

Ken

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:05 AM Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Been on the list since April 1994 (with differing emails of course).
>
> Quality versus quantity as others have stated.
>
> Please keep this list going.   I don't mind the sparsity as long as good
> knowledge
> comes forth now and then.
>
> Steven
> 91 Westy
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:37 PM Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
>
> > There are currently 490 subscribers on the gerry.vanagon.com list.
> >
> > I suspect that your hypothesis is correct. I admin a few other lists and
> > where there used to be ten to a hundred posts daily, there’s now one or
> two
> > a week. All gone to FB no doubt as it’s more ‘immediate.’ WetWesties for
> > example, 2008 saw an avg of 299.8 messages/month. 2018, the avg is
> 32.5/mo.
> >
> > I too miss the chatter. I also miss that chatter being archived.
> >
> > For historical purposes, the following is the first post to the Vanagon
> > list.  (There was a vanagon-L list that preceded it, but those archives
> are
> > lost to the sands of time as I’m sure this list’s archives will be
> > eventually.)
> >
> > We’ve had a good run.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > Date:         Sat, 2 Apr 1994 15:01:54 -0600 (CST)
> > Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
> > From:         Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti>
> > Subject:      New listprocessor
> >
> > This is a rather trepid announcement of my installation of the
> > listprocessor software.
> >
> > The list is still called vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu, but you can send
> > help,subscribe,unsubscribe,set vanagon digest messages to
> > listserv@lenti.med.umn.edu
> >
> > As soon as I get a welcome message together, I'll post it to the list
> > so you can forward it to your friends.
> >
> > If there are any problems, I'll probably see them, but please send mail
> > to me as gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu if you see them first or you need some
> > help with something.
> >
> > Also, if you can spare a few seconds to quickly respond to this note so I
> > know it got out there somewhere, that'd be nice (I can do that while the
> > list is still small. <smile>)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Gerry
> > Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu> U of MN Med.School.Admin
> 6-5379
> > 1984 VW Vanagon Waterboxer 1915
> >
> > > On Jun 10, 2019, at 3:32 PM, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I figured that this was best sent to a moderator, hence Ben T in
> subject
> > line.
> > > The Vanagon list seems to have shrunk to just one or two posts a day,
> > and I'm wondering where everyone has gone.  I'm thinking they have all
> gone
> > to a FaceBook page, but not sure which one.
> > > I don't do FaceBook, but I checked my wife's account and there is
> > several Vanagon groups; one with 11,000 members!  Is that it?
> > > There was even a small Vanagon diesel group, and what really surprised
> > me was a Central Florida Vanagon group with a couple of hundred
> members.  I
> > didn't know that there was that many Vanagons here in Florida.
> > > I'd love to know where everyone has gone because I miss the Vanagon
> > chatter.  Especially as I am searching for a van again now.
> > > Thanks, Anthony (NE FL)
> >
>

-- 
Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com