I must pipe up... I've been on this list for over two years now, and only
*just this week* found out that there is a PayPal account to support the
list. Sure, quarterly begging like PBS/NPR resort to would be annoying...
but an occasional plug for list support would not be amiss.

Maybe TomC should put a "click here to help support the list" link in his
e-mail signature? That way, on the (fairly infrequent) occasions when he
needs to post, there will be a link for all to see.

At 10:47 AM 8/13/2004 -0400, Jim Henry wrote:
>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
> >
> >