Good one, Jim.  People just don't THINK before they email the list asking
where the list went!

Emailing the wetwesties list is pretty effective too - lots of folks there
had also realized that Vanagon.com was down (except for one who shall remain
nameless, who said he was still getting his Vanagon mail!).

I hope not too many bits fell on Tom's floor.  And THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOT
SENDING OUT ALL THE MISSED MESSAGES!!!  I really wasn't looking forward to
having to deal with three days of Vanagon mail at once!  :-)

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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:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of Jim Arnott
:::Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 1:11 AM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: Where'd the list go!?!?
:::
:::Do I really have to answer this again???
:::
:::On occasion, gerry, the vanagon list server, takes a vacation.  When
:::this happens, you can send all the "Where'd the list go?" messages
:::you want to gerry.vanagon.com and with luck, they'll get queued and
:::be delivered WHEN THE SERVER COMES BACK UP.  With a little less luck,
:::the bits from the messages all fall out of the 'tubes' and end up on
:::the floor at Tom C's house. Then Mrs C then has to sweep them up and
:::toss them as it's quite difficult, if not impossible, to pour them
:::from the dustpan back into the Internet.
:::
:::Knowing this, way back in 1996, when the list made its transition
:::from lenti.med.umn.edu (good lord.... It's been ten years and I still
:::remember that address....) we made alternative arrangements.
:::
:::Join the vanagon@yahoogroups.com list.  When gerry steps out for a
:::few days, the folks that are on that list KNOW what's going on. They
:::also have access to 965 other gerry listmembers. The yahoogroups list
:::sole reason for being is to disseminate vanagon type information when
:::gerry.vanagon.com is unavailable. Using it also helps keep Tom's
:::floor clean.
:::
:::I hope that this clears up any confusion.
:::
:::Jim