That is an outstanding idea. I would be very interested in getting access
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 3:30 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
> > >
> >
>