Robert, one thing that seems missing (explicitly, anyway) in your summary is
from Jim Arnott's summary - Jim works for an Internet Services Provider
which provides hosting services and has room on its hosting server(s).

It also seems like I remember from previous discussion that Jim manages the
technical services for said ISP, and I took that part of his summary to be
at least a mild suggestion toward an option which would give him a very
'hands on' capability.

Perhaps that is already well known, and is what you refer to at the end -
turning over as was originally planned, etc.

Vern McIntosh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Fisher" <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: New platform-www.vanagon.us.com?

> Which brings us in a roundabout way back to the original point of these
> threads:
>
> A couple of times a year Gerry goes down and somebody has to go find the
guy
> that has the machine and get him to go kick it.
>
> The hardware is getting old, the software has been old and the whole thing
> is slow and getting slower.
>
> A sizable chunk of the internet in America cannot get email from Gerry
> because AT&T has decided it is spam.
>
> The guy that has the will and the responsibility to administer the list
> doesn't have the means to do it properly.
>
> Did I miss anything?
>
> Is there anybody out there than can catch up to Tom C. and have a face to
> face with him?
> It seems that the fundamental solution lies in getting him to hand over
the
> machine, or at least the drive(s) it lives on, as was originally planned.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>