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
>
>