Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:47:46 -0500
Reply-To: Ken Hooper <bighouse@TYPE2.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: Ken Hooper <bighouse@TYPE2.COM>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: TYPE2 LIST SPLIT please read
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Listees,
Ah, but we're pushing 1100 subscribers and I'm getting jaded and mean and
worn out, you knew it had to happen eventually. I believe I will retire
from the pursuit of list administration, buy a clutch of goats, move to the
Dominican Republic and live in a hut made of leaves and sticks. That sounds
pretty good. 8)
Here is what is going to happen:
-- We are going to split the type2 list. Please don't
freak out, we've split before and we will again and
this is the way of it as the net grows. There will
be one list for split-windshield people and another
for single-windshield people.
-- This list, type2, will become the bay-window list.
It will be administrated by Steve Dolan
<dworkin@type2.com>.
-- The splitty list will be called vintagebus and will
be administrated by Thom Fitzpatrick <thom@calweb.com>.
-- In the previous list split and in previous server
changes, we have subscribed you from old list to
the new one without any action on your part. Please
note that we are NOT GOING TO DO THAT this time. You
will be given subscribe instructions for both lists
and you will then have to subscribe yourself to the
list(s) you want. This is because we think we are
carrying lots of people who aren't really reading the
list and this will cut that dead weight out. We'd like
to cut the server load if we can, it is serious
bandwidth.
-- On Sunday night we will erase the roster; on Monday
when you log in, get on the list(s) you want and
just continue on. The automated subscription process
takes two minutes maximum.
-- Both lists will be running out of type2.com, through
the gracious generosity of Duelist <duelist@azaccess.com>
and Arizona Access, without whom I don't think we could
survive.
-- I understand that some folks will need to vent, Heaven
knows they did last time. 8) You can pretty much say what
you want, just please put "list split" somewhere in your
subject line so people can delete if they want.
-- I said once that this is the best group of people I have
ever worked with, on-line or otherwise, and despite the
idiot-mail and a few juicy flames that is more true now than
when I said it (because a thick skin enables you to discern
the important). I remain honored to have worked with you.
I've been on the net a *long* time and been in a lot of fora
and there was never anything else like this that I saw.
--Ken
68 Westy, Admin --type2-- The Volkswagen Bus Mailing List