# vanagon.com

> The Vanagon & EuroVan community, its restored pre-compromise website, mailing-list archive, and modern forum.

## Overview
- Archived mailing-list messages: 513,495
- Weekly archives recorded: 2,731
- Recorded year range: 1994–2026
- Original LISTSERV message URLs are read directly and remain the canonical identity; modern clean message paths remain compatible aliases.

## Primary sections
- [Home](https://vanagon.com/): current source-attributed community News
- [Archive index](https://vanagon.com/archives): browse preserved mailing-list weeks
- [Archive search](https://vanagon.com/archives/search?q=QUERY): full-text search
- [Photos-first News](https://vanagon.com/news/?sort=media): the existing feed with media ordered first
- [Explore Vanagon](https://vanagon.com/explore/): current News and checked preserved-reference cards; separate message, Dictionary and indexed file-name/path searches; reference JSON is at /info/ with Accept: application/json; not a complete catalog
- [Volkswagen Dictionary](https://vanagon.com/dictionary/): Vanagon-hosted shared lexical service for undated and present entry URLs; dated snapshots and nested legacy paths retain the preserved reader
- Dictionary APIs and OpenAPI: https://dictionary.vanagon.com/api/docs and https://dictionary.vanagon.com/openapi.yaml
- Dictionary MCP: https://dictionary.vanagon.com/.well-known/mcp.json (read-only tools, resources and prompts)
- Dictionary publication feeds: https://dictionary.vanagon.com/rss.xml and https://dictionary.vanagon.com/feed.xml
- [Historical pages and files](https://vanagon.com/history/): paginated captured pages, images, documents, audio and videos
- [Forum](https://vanagon.com/forum): modern discussion board (accounts required to post)
- [Live chat](https://vanagon.com/chat): current community conversation

## URL structure
- Week index: https://vanagon.com/archives/ind{YYMM}{week-letter}  (e.g. /archives/ind2603a)
- Single message canonical: https://vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2={weekKey}&L=vanagon&F=&S=&P={messageId}
- Compatible clean message alias: https://vanagon.com/archives/{weekKey}/{messageId}/
- Period indexes retain their original /cgi-bin/wa.exe and /archives routes.
- Forum thread: https://vanagon.com/forum/{slug}

## Feeds & discovery
- [Readable site index](https://vanagon.com/site-index/): human navigation directory
- [Preservation status](https://vanagon.com/preservation/): dated recovery observations, not completeness claims
- [Machine index](https://vanagon.com/llms-index.json): structured discovery companion
- [People and credits](https://vanagon.com/humans.txt): restoration stewardship and original contributors
- RSS: https://vanagon.com/rss.xml
- Sitemap: https://vanagon.com/sitemap.xml
- Robots policy: https://vanagon.com/robots.txt
- Full LLM context: https://vanagon.com/llms-full.txt
- Machine index: https://vanagon.com/llms-index.json
- Public agent guide: https://vanagon.com/agents.md
- Published local historical captures: https://vanagon.com/history/index.json (paginated)
- Known historical document URLs are listed in the machine index; discovered URLs may still be awaiting recovery.
- Timeline dates persist through navigation, retaining the exact eligible local capture when available, otherwise the latest usable local copy with its actual capture date disclosed.
- Non-homepage timeline controls group captures by year. A year uses snapshot=YYYY1231235959 and prefers each resource's latest usable stored capture in that year; missing years use a disclosed cross-year fallback. Exact timestamp and capture-ID links remain available. This is a reconstructed yearly view, not evidence of one simultaneous whole-site capture.
- Original nested paths remain rooted at this site, including deeply nested pages and supporting files; dated URLs retain their original path and meaningful query parameters.
- A recorded dependency or pending recovery job is not proof that the entire nested page tree is available.

## Notes
## Weekly community archives
- Reader: https://vanagon.com/archives/community/
- Index API: https://vanagon.com/api/v1/archive/community-weeks
- Index pagination: at most 52 periods per page; follow data.nextBefore using ?before=YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.000Z until null. windowEnd descending; cursor is exclusive. This is not a frozen inventory across requests.
- Period selection: ?end=YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.000Z
- Cutoff policy: Saturday 23:00 America/New_York, following daylight saving time.
- Finalized forum/email contributions and separately preserved public chat; preparing periods are not public.
- Stored manifests are SHA-256 checked before public reading.
- Chat archival never enrolls participants or creates mailing-list deliveries.
- Schedule policy describes the requested behavior; live archive and digest activation require operational acceptance.


Only independently recovered, header-verified archive content is presented as restored message content. Historical material remains read-only.