Well, 

        That is an interesting thought.  AI that could search through all kinds  of vanagon info and come up with suggestions.  I actually think that would be great.  And our list archives would likely be a great source of the more useful info. 

Eric Caron 

> On Nov 25, 2023, at 3:29 AM, Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> I have every email from day 1 in 1994 for most email lists related to
> vanagon and I was wondering if I should use these to feed an AI engine,
> along with all the pdfs of all the manuals, of which there must be 50
> related to Vanagon.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 1:07 PM Ben T <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> RIP Tom Forhan. As our vans age, so do we. We’ve been losing friends every
>> year and it’s happening more frequently.
>> 
>> 
>> BenT
>> 
>>> On Nov 23, 2023, at 4:04 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The vanagon list started in early April of 1994 hosted on the University
>> of Minnesota’s lenti.med server. Gerry Skerbitz was our first admin.
>>> 
>>> The list split happened a couple years later… Checking archives:
>>> 
>>> http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9607&L=vanagon&P=R21349
>>> 
>>> 10 Jul 1996
>>> 
>>> So yeah, Almost 30 years ago.
>>> 
>>> Looks like my first post in June of 1995 was telling folks about a
>> Syncro (misspelled) for sale in the next town over. Tom Forhan flew out
>> from the east coast and bought it. Had it the rest of his life. (It was a
>> good one and so was he.)
>>> 
>>> And that my friends, is why it’s good to have a record of where we’ve
>> been.
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
>>