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Subject:Re: Bob Hoover Sermons CD-ROM is SHIPPING!
From:Joshua Van Tol
Date:Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:52:05 -0600

>> If you don't know, the Sermons of Bob Hoover was surely the most
>> popular VW resource on the net until it was pulled down earlier
>> this year. Back when I had the ability to log the Sermons web
>> page, people were requesting about 38,000 sermons per week. It
>> was an incredible resource--and still is.
>
>... that is, if you own an air-cooled bus.  Bob Hoover's opinion was that
>Vanagons were dinosaurs, doomed to go extinct while air-cooled busses
>survived forever.
>
>Save your money and buy a manual written by someone who likes our
>water-cooled vans.
>
>Just my humble opinion.
>Coyote
>

Bob's advice, while not specific to the vanagon is generally quite
applicable to the vanagon. I think Coyote is being a bit harsh here. Seems
he and Bob had a falling out not so long ago over whether public postings
were the property of the list administrator. Bob held that they weren't,
and the whole thing got ugly.

Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@lear.csp.ee.memphis.edu