Date:         Sat, 11 Mar 2000 07:48:14 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: List Sticker debacle
Comments: To: "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>

I kinda figured that if we made a buck on these stickers, that someone would
figure out a way to spend it!  Does sound like a good idea, though.  I'd
been wondering how to get the message across easily and clearly.  You've got
my vote.

Karl Wolz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: List Sticker debacle


> I agree with Frank on the purposes of the list stickers. But I wonder how
> many people who hit the front www.vanagon.com page will wander into the
> "List" section.
>
> How's this for an idea...we buy/register "vanagon.org" (yes, it is avail)
> and set it up so that gerry.vanagon.com can also be reached at
> http://www.vanagon.org ? Sure, we can put http://gerry.vanagon.com in the
> sticker, but that might confuse some people. The reason is that much of
the
> public would not understand http://gerry.vanagon.com on a sticker. They
> expect to see "www" in the front of the address for a website.
>
> Since Ron had done the web work on both (THANKS Ron!!), the "look and
feel"
> would be the same on both sites.
>
> BTW...I think Otmar has room (and then some) on the side of his Vanagon
for
> all the subscribe/unsubscribe commands!!!  ;)
>
> TomC
> tcarrington@relitech.com
> http://volksweb.relitech.com
> 85 Vanagon Crew Cab
> 82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
> 65 Notchback
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: RAlanen@AOL.COM [SMTP:RAlanen@AOL.COM]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 6:07 AM
> > To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject:      List Sticker debacle
> >
> >     List sticker, list sticker what is your purpose ?  Well, here goes
my
> > story.....I think it should serve two purposes. 1. identify the Vanagon
> > owner
> > as a List member and  2. tell how to get to the List.  NOW, that # 2 one
> > is
> > the hard part. Since we can't explain the whole subsribe-unsubscribe
> > thingy
> > on that we bit of a sticker unless you guys and gals wanna make a
> > billboard
> > for the side of the Vanagon, then the only logical thing to do is
> > advertise
> > "Vanagon.com".  There they will get the whole skinny on the List !
>