List membership, As I have loosely followed this thread and felt a bit of uneasiness for the change in Gerry's local and management, I was very glad that Bruce brought the donation page to the list's attention. I can say that I have contributed to this on more than one occasion since 1998, not huge amounts of cash, probably not enough to cover Tom's coffee budget, but thought it was a reasonable part of list participation. I was shocked to see that my contributions, admittedly minimal, were actually more than 1% of the total accounting. With this list supposedly having thousands of members, I think it is time for all of us to consider regular contributions a responsibility of list membership, thus supporting it financially as well as through participation. I hope that our future list manager will publish a monthly reminder of various member responsibilities and standards of operation than will include the opportunity and need for financial support. And I also hope that we will all be a little more involved in our membership. I am not pleased to see that I have spent more on shipping from BusDepot than on support to Gerry since I have subscribed. Jim Durham, NC > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] > On Behalf Of Bruce Nadig > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:02 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: The Health Of The Gerry & The List > .... > By the way, most of you probably didn't know this. On > vanagon.com there is a convenient link that gives you > instructions on how you can make a monetary contribution to > Gerry and the Vanagon list. There is also (what appears to > be) a full accounting of all money that has been contributed > and how it has been spent. Please see this link: > > http://gerry.vanagon.com/info/donations.html > > Sadly, in 2001 only 43 donations were made! That is alarming. > At any rate, you can make a donation via snail mail or > PayPal. I must admit that I have never made a contribution. I > am going to correct that right now. > > Cheers, > Bruce > motorbruce > motorbruce@hotmail.com > > |
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