It's for real.  Trust me.  I think it's meant who are in "no mail" or
vacation status, which is exactly what I did to my other email account.

2008/9/10 Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@gmail.com>

> What's this about?  I've never gotten an email telling me I had to renew my
> subscription to the list.  Is this spam, a dumb joke, or just some folks
> don't have staying capacity and have to keep renewing?
>
>
>
> Joy
> (and Matilda, yet again spending the night visiting her increasingly-good
> friends at Canadian Tire in Mt. Pearl, NL...)
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Chris S. <mrpolak@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > CONFIRM vanagon
> >
> > --- On Wed, 9/10/08, L-Soft list server at Vanagon List (1.8d) <
> > LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:
> > From: L-Soft list server at Vanagon List (1.8d) <
> > LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Subject: Renewal of your subscription to the vanagon list
> > To: "Chris Stann" <mrpolak@YAHOO.COM>
> > Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 6:00 AM
> >
> > Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:00:00
> >
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Chris S.
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