<VV> how many -- WHO CARES??? Aghhhhhh!

[burkhard at rochester.rr.com]

Wow. It doesn't happen tremendously often, but I find myself in 
*strong* agreement with Mark here. Do we really care to have each of 
the thousand or so VV members wax poetic upon each of the many cars 
they've ever owned? Blah, blah, blah, blah.... 

People wonder why lots of folks who could contribute (or HAVE 
contributed... I could name many sorely missed) real value get off VV.  
Too much crap to sort through! Sure, one can set up a special VV-only 
mailbox, autosort, delete, etc, but most non-geek people don't want to 
bother with all that. They use one email address and incoming folder 
for everything; if it's jammed up daily with dozens of such 
drivelgrams, they get frustrated and turn it ALL off.

If you aren't posting something of interest to at least a sizeable 
minority of the folks on here, please post it to yourself (or VV-Talk) 
instead...  

Good things to post include:
1. questions on Corvair-topics, especially tech or history.
2. answers to #1
3. cars, parts, books, etc. for sale (if they are your own or belong to 
someone you know and are acting for, not "I saw this on Ebay")
4. notification about upcoming Corvair events.
5. other things specific to Corvairs of interest to hundreds of people.

Bad Things to post include:
1.  stupid one liners, especially person-person inside jokes. We don't 
care.
2.  "I'm not the seller, but I saw for sale on EBay and thought you all 
should be notified as you probably have never heard of EBay, nor know 
how to master its ridiculously simple search engine".  There are 
hundreds of Corvair items on Ebay daily. Anyone who wants to can look 
for deals. It's not like a car for sale in some remote area that few 
people could ever learn about. Ebay is wide open to anyone in the 
world. Go to www.ebay.com daily and search on "Corvair". Done.
3.  "I saw a Corvair in the background of a 40 year old movie". No 
kidding... way to be alert, Sherlock. You do realize that they made 
almost 2 millions of these cars, right? Likewise, if you are finally 
getting "Mr. Holland's Opus" on Netflix, don't try to amaze us with 
your keen powers of observation.  
4.  emails without *relevant* quoted text from prior postings.  Non 
sequitars suck...
5.  emails with ALL text from every prior email in the thread -- are 
you trying to get Digest subscribers to quit?
6.  uncategorized drivel not specific to Corvairs or of interest to 
hundreds of people. If you can't interest at least 10% of the people, 
it's probably a bad post.

Jim Burkhard

----- Original Message -----
From: airvair <airvair at richnet.net>
Date: Monday, January 8, 2007 10:28 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> how many
Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org

> Boy, what spam! DELETE, DELETE, DELETE. Whew, my delete finger is
> getting tired.
> 
> Take it off-list, for Pete's sake!
> 
> -Mark