John:

your question raises many more, such as who *owns* the list...or the
posts and knowledge contained within the database.  I do not recall
signing away any rights to anything I publish on the list when I
subscribed.  Can any one just mine the archive and write a book based on
the info in the archives?

Another question is who would do it?  Putting together a comprehensive
booklet of posts from the archive would be a significant
undertaking...hardly justifiable without a profit potential...unless you
do not need the $ and have nothing else to do....I suppose people could
volunteer to handle specific topics and then they  could all be put
together and published.  (Ron has started compiling some posts on
Vanagon FAQ's on the vanagon.com site.)  Even this would take a lot of
work and a cooperative effort.  Not impossible, but who is going to do
it...?  If one has a hankering and is willing to do a good job, I
suspect Ron might publish compilations or essays on FAQ's on his site.

steve

John H. Rodgers wrote:

> -- [ From: John H. Rodgers * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
>
> To my esteemed VW Van comrades on the list:

...

My question is this........... has there ever been consideration of
getting

> the archived accumulation(redundant?) of experience put together in a
> printed form as a reference book?
>
> ...

> Any comment?
>
> John Rodgers
> '85 GL Driver