Jim:

In my opinion, you have done a great job so far as the moderator.
It is a great sacrifice of your time to do this job for us. I have no
doubt of your enthusiasm of Vanagons. You are the right person for the
job.

I don't have the authority but if I do your resignation is denied.
I hope there are many others to join me to ask you to stay and remain
as the moderator of this list.

Sincerely,

David

--- On Wed, 1/14/09, Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM> wrote:

> From: Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
> Subject: Re: Vanagon List Moderator-let's get things underway!
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 8:49 PM
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:10 PM, David Beierl wrote:
>
> > Which raises a question I alluded vaguely to earlier
> as being at the
> > very heart of this discussion -- who, in the economic
> sense, actually
> > *owns* the list?  Who owns the hardware?  Who keeps
> the purse?  I
> > rather think it's time for a small group of
> interested parties to
> > have some serious discussion about this with Coyote
> and Tom.  And
> > likely sign some papers at some point.
>
> "The list" is 'literally' owned by the
> listmembers.
> The current 'logical owners' are Tom Carrington and
> myself.
> The domain vanagon.com is registered to Ron (Coyote)
> Lussier.
> The server belongs to "the list."  (It was
> purchased with donations
> from the listmembers in 2001.)
> There is no 'purse.' TomC has donated the pipe.
> TomC has donated the
> maintenance.
> And what papers would you like to sign? Are we going to
> incorporate?
> 501(c)(3)? Cool! That implies an income! Can I have a
> salary now?
>
> Jim