LOL John, I was wondering about flaming on this list.  Seems like everyone
is so nice, I am encouraged to take a conservative approach too.  Maybe
thats it...

-----Original Message-----
From: John Anderson <vwbus@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY

>GOOD GOD, not that I'm about to get into any of this, but the list may not
>be dead after all, after months of dealing with issues of great importance
>like group purchases of trendy fog light grilles, we come to the nearest
>we've had to a flame war in something like 3.5 years (anybody still
remember
>the good ole "one happy family" days), I mean Ric G's (no slam Ric, I defer
>to your opinions generally) in it and all.  Since I started that one, I'll
>just watch this one and laugh, and go looking for that burnt out EGR filter
>to put back on the '81 (yeah, right after I put the cat back on).  I thing
>Gerry might have even moderated this one by now, but conservative though I
>am, free speech is always right.
>
>john
>vwbus@mindspring.com
>
>(PS: dad's '87 Caravan, just say it 185k and still going strong, no
>mechanical work ever, them Mitsu engines are strong, no emissions problems,
>his '90 Vanagon's tranny just kerplunked, and it had the heads done, and I
>own 4 of them, guess I'm the idiot)