[Vwdiesel] Archive Search

[James Hansen]

Hey Joe
I think by now, Roger has a lot of vw diesel FAQ's well detailed on his
site, it's a wealth of info there.  Other than that, feel free to ask. 

http://www.4crawler.com/Diesel/index.shtml#TechInfo

-james


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]
> On Behalf Of Joe
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:36 AM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Archive Search
> 
> That's kinda why I brought it up... Folks in forums tend to get a
> little
> grumpy when the same question gets asked over and over again.  But
> there
> really isn't much of an "archive search" feature:
> 
> http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/vwdiesel/
> 
> It gives you a list of threads organized by month and year, but no way
> to
> search them.  Granted, vwdiesel only goes back to 2002, but that's
> still
> alot of months.  I have a sneaking suspicion the list is older than
> that
> though... Audifans itself claims the Quattro list has been around since
> 1991.
> 
> This clearly pre-dates "forums" on the web... It has the advantage of
> allowing folks to stay in contact via email and not have to stare at a
> browser window, but isn't a great way to archive data for future
> reference.
> However, forums require quite a bit more maintenance and monitoring
> than a
> simple email listing system like this.
> 
> But I didn't think to use Google's advanced search feature... (thanks
> Mark
> Shepherd) It works, to a limited extent.  You can specify that Google
> only
> searches within the domain "audifans.com/pipermail/vwdiesel/" so you
> get
> fairly close to the info, but not in sequential order.  So if the same
> subject was discussed in several different threads, it gets all jumbled
> together.
> 
> Anyhoo, I just didn't want to re-run questions that I'm sure my 82'
> Rabbit's
> previous owner had already asked.  (his name was Doug Presney)  I've
> only
> had the Rabbit since August.  Though I have put over 4000 miles on it
> already, I still have alot to learn since it's my first Diesel, and it
> has
> quite a "personality".  It's my 4th VW, though the first 3 were air-
> cooled.
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 
> Joe Haas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]
> On
> Behalf Of William J Toensing
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:59 AM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Archive Search
> 
> I really have not used the Archive Search so maybe some suggestions
> would be
> useful. On questions I have had re my 1982 Quantum I have used "More
> Quantum
> Questions?" so my guess is that comments under the subject would be so
> archived. If there is a better way, I would like to know too. This is
> not a
> complaint. My guess is that most of us are shade tree mechanics looking
> for
> help from each other in this discussion group & are not computer
> geniuses.
> Bill Toensing, Nevada City, CA
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