Over the past few months, this list, which I originally subscribed
to in the summer of 1995, has become a mess of people arguing about
nothing.

Replies that have no content, no useful information of anysort, and just
plain assholes flaming other people.

I subscribed to the vanagon@lenti list just after I bought my first bus: a
1975 Westy.  I recieved lots of terrific help, and am greatful.  I still
have the vintagebus and type2 lists to get help on, since no one is very
interested in HELPING people here anymore.

Mailing lists need moderation, of some sort at least.  People who post off
topic to excess should be booted, as well as the assholes who only hinder,
and never help. Without this moderation, we are nothing better then your
favorite newsgroups.

Grow up people.

And, for the last of the vanagon content, mom's jetta lost a piece of her
shift linkage this weekend while I was camping at FrozenBus (a huge
success, btw! you should have been there!:), so last night I hacked
another relay into mom's old one (the dual relayon her 82, the non-pump
side had ~1.5M ohms across the points when closed..), and stuck it all in
there.  Ugly, but it works. (Jim called last night, the new relay should
be in tomorrow or the next day)

Took it for a 45 minute drive, and it ran great.  took a bit for the
lifters to pump back up.

I'll miss the great help I've recieved from this list over the years, but
I wont miss the bullshit.  and to think, I've got my eye on an ~85 around
the corner from work.  Oh well, I know who to turn to for help when I need
it.

.....david

(and, since most of you havent figured it out yet, no on-list replies need
to be made to this.  If you want to comment, keen@finally.atlasta.net
works well, or direct them to /dev/null )

--
David Raistrick  '69 Westy-Ichigo                       keen@finally.atlasta.net
                 '82 Westy-Maxine (Mom's)
                 '66 SO-44 Westy (It runs! I drove it!) in Augusta Ga