Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 12:53:05 -0400
Reply-To: Jim Henry <jch@JCHGIS.COM>
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From: Jim Henry <jch@JCHGIS.COM>
Subject: Re: Vanagon List status and update
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I can offer another second to the thanks to Tom and now to Jim Arnott. This
list continues to be the single most important factor in the survival of my
Westy.
It is important for all of us to value the list in a way that many of us do
not even know about, and that is financially. I do not have any connect to
this support process, other than as a donor, but Tom never seems to remind
us of the support process. Tom has done a great job of keeping everything
going for virtually nothing, but I just checked the current status of the
donations account, http://gerry.vanagon.com/info/donations.html , that keeps
all this going, and it does not look flush. It might be time for all of us
to send Tom a little change, if everyone on the list sent something, we
might see Gerry's survival be more secure than it is already.
Thanks again, Tom, for an incredible job. I will try to have something in
the mail to Gerry soon.
Jim
Durham, NC
84 Westy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]
> On Behalf Of Carrington, Tom
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:35 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Vanagon List status and update
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Just want to give you a heads-up about changes that are
> happening to the list.
>
> Effective rather immediately, Jim Arnott is in charge of the
> care and feeding of the list. In other words, it is now his
> discretion on what kind of content is acceptable to post, who
> can post, who needs to be censored, etc.
>
> Jim's a good guy and been on the list for years and years, so
> please treat him with the respect that he deserves. Also,
> please take a moment to thank him for taking on the task -
> I'm sure he would appreciate it.
>
> For now, the server will remain in Maryland, and I will
> continue to maintain the system, hardware, perform backups, etc.
>
> The server will be moved to a new IP address on the 31st of
> May. The DSL circuit that has been the link for Gerry to all
> of you is being replaced by a fiber-optic connection. It is
> much faster, and hopefully more reliable!
>
> During the transition, the Internet will need to learn of the
> new connection that serves Gerry. It may take 24-48 hours for
> the change to propogate across all the servers on the
> Internet, so don't be too shocked if your mail is temporarily delayed.
>
> It is also possible that some anti-SPAM services on the 'net
> will need be informed of the change. I'll be watching the
> error logs and notifying postmasters/system administrators at
> affected domains to let the mail come through. :)
>
> For you techies, the new IP address of Gerry will be 71.126.148.6
>
> Thanks for your patience during this transition!
>
> Regards,
> TomC
>
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