My point thought was not to find a "sucker" to maintain and categorize the
incoming mail,  But have the users be forced to make a selection from a
list box (or any other means) that categorizes their email.

Dan Moy
danmoy@cynet.net

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Sean Bartnik wrote:

> >
> > I have been following this thread as everyone else has.  It appears that
> > we have missed the point here.  We want to make the vanagon list more
> > useful and more accessable.
> >
> > The problem is that there is a lot of information in the archives
> > which make it difficult to search.  Alot of the information should be
> > temporary (ie. For sale, unrelated discussions on topics other
> > than vanagons etc.)
> >
> > If this type of "temporary" information was automatically deleted from the
> > archives and we could force categorization (ie. electrical, camper,
> > body, suspension etc), I believe that using an online archive system would
> > be much easier.
> >
> I think Dan has a good point here -- I find the Vanagon archives to be
> tedious and hard to find useful information in.
>
> The Type2 archives are a bit better in that recent messages are listed
> by subject at the archive site, though I don't know about older
> messages.
>
> Josh Rodgers, on the type2 list, has done a good thing and created the
> Type2 Technical Reference Library, which is linked to the Type2.com web
> page.  He has taken the time to set up categories (like suspension,
> engine, etc) and compile a bunch of articles from the list and from
> other technical resources (like some articles from my tech page) so that
> when you click on your category of choice, you are presented with a list
> of available articles.  I think this kind of thing would be great for
> the Vanagon list.
>
> All we need is a sucker, er, I mean volunteer, to put this together.
>
> This way we could weed out all the non-technical posts such as
> "unsubscribe vanagon" and could create an archive of useful technical
> info, with maybe a separate category for "list fluff" :-)
> --
> Sean Bartnik
> Fredericksburg, Virginia
> 1981 Volkswagen Vanagon L Westfalia
> 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia convertible
> Ex-1975 Volkswagen Beetle
> Ex-1978 Volkswagen Bus
> http://www.type2.com/bartnik/myvan.htm
> http://www.mwc.edu/~sbart7kb/vwbooks.htm
>