Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:10:16 -0400
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: VW facebook website, coming up!
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Well folks, it's going to become a reality, with your cooperation!
We are really going to create a website with photos of your favorite
vanagonauts, so you can connect faces to names and email addresses.
But it can't happen unless you help. We need your pictures! Of yourself,
or of anyone else who posts on the various VW bus lists, of folks who used
to post, folks who have been banned from the list, folks who hide their
posts under pseudonyms (Eric Z? Terry K?). Folks you like, folks you don't
like, anyone you like as long as they are somehow part of the VW bus
community!
Please email your photos to me. And here's some guidelines to get us going:
- Please keep photos of modest size. Definitely under 500K, smaller if
possible.
- Please put "VW facebook photos" in the subject line. That will make it
easier for me to automatically route photos into a separate file so they
won't clog my inbox.
- Along with each photo, please make you sure you include the name of the
person in the picture, her or his email address, and the name and email
address of the photographer. If there are several people in the photo,
please make sure you identify all of them. But solo photos will be easier
for the VW facebook! If you can identify the general geographic location of
the person (e.g. city or state, or "fulltiming, no fixed address"), that
would be interesting as well. If you know the approximate date of the
photos, that would be useful too.
- This site will be password protected so the general public can't look
through it. But if there is anyone who does NOT want her or his photo up
there, please let me know. If anyone sends in your picture, we'll pull it.
Please feel free to forward this email to VW bus lists that I am not on.
This is an equal opportunity VW bus facebook!
And we'll put our mind to the most entertaining kind of contest to set up as
we create the site. I'm leaning to the photo match - we give you a set of
photos and a list of names, you have to match them! But you can only try
with folks you've never met! We could try a beauty contest - but from what
I've seen, I don't think anyone would win, with this crowd. :-)
I'm looking forward to getting your photos!
Joy
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Joy Hecht
now living in a real house in northern Virginia
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years
lugging Joy and her stuff around...
For musings about life and the vanadventures:
http://www.joyhecht.net
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