Date:         Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:25:18 -0700
Reply-To:     Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      ADMINISTRIVIA - What to do when you stop receiving posts
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Well, it seems that we're back. (Thank you Tom.)

Not unlike our beloved vans, the vanagon@gerry list occasionally
leaves us dead on the side of the Internet highway. When that happens,
you first start not receiving list posts followed shortly by an
overwhelming urge to send a note to vanagon@gerry asking if the list
is down.  The next step seems to be asking all your friends and
acquaintances, "Is the list down?" Then apparently a final collapse
into an unreasonable fear that without the vanagon list posts, your
engine will suffer terminal lifter clatter, your tires will all toss
belts and your odometer will no longer function.

Folks! There IS a solution!!!!!

Way back when Gerry Skerbitz was asked to kindly remove his little
mailing list from the UMN servers, we set up a 'spare' list to keep
everyone up to speed on the move from lenti.umn.edu to vanagon.com.
After the move was completed, we were going to shut down this 'spare'
list but then gerry (small 'g' = computer hardware, large 'G' = human
being) needed to be relocated so we left the spare list intact. Over
the ensuing (omg) fifteen or so years, the 'spare' list has served us
well during the infrequent outage.  It allows administrators to
broadcast that yes indeed there is an outage and it allows those with
the desire for the security of hundreds of like minded individuals to
remain in contact.

So....

Please join  the 'spare' vanagon list at yahoogroups.  One can either
browse to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vanagon or I believe that one
can just send an e-mail to
vanagon-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

The traffic is not particularly heavy and will allow us to notify you
when there are problems.

Thanks,

Jim Arnott
List Administrator
vanagon@gerry