...and now i'm ending it.

okay, this is getting ridiculous.

i've been on this list for about a year, often contributing privately,
almost never contributing (or asking questions) publicly.  as so many
other people have pointed out, people on the list hold an amazing volume
of knowledge about vanagons, other VWs, and vehicles in general.  and they
feel free to share that knowledge, whether it's about VWs, Audis,
Porsches, or even those guys with the Econoline and the Suburban.

so, in my opinion, my short, to-the-point email asking for advice about
another type of VW should be acceptable.  if nothing else it's at least as
acceptable as email about campgrounds, rest area murders (two recent
threads), not to mention the old repetitive threads that we've seen over
and over again (discussions about vendors, tires, bike racks, guns in
vanagons, whatever).

i clearly stated the subject of the email.  if you aren't interested,
delete it.  it's not that hard.

it's interesting that i got about 15 private and a couple public responses
from people about the Thing.  in contrast, there's been a flood of public
posts ranting about whether the email is off-topic.  is that really how
you feel like spending your energy?  the complaints have created much more
clutter than the original question and responses.

okay.  now i'm done.  i'm staying on the list, but i have a much lower
opinion of some of you than i did before.

--jay

ps- thanks for everybody that offered information.  it was a good
supplement to the research that i had already done.

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Leon Korkin wrote:
>
> This is strange that somebody asking for info on Thing can not do simple search
> on Thing and get more info then he can read in a month directly from people
> driving Thing and knowing Thing so we are again littering
> the list with useless mail to delete...
> Leon
> 85 Subwagen Westy