Listees,

Ah, but we're pushing 1100 subscribers and I'm getting jaded and mean and
worn out, you knew it had to happen eventually. I believe I will retire
from the pursuit of list administration, buy a clutch of goats, move to the
Dominican Republic and live in a hut made of leaves and sticks. That sounds
pretty good. 8)

Here is what is going to happen:

        -- We are going to split the type2 list. Please don't
           freak out, we've split before and we will again and
           this is the way of it as the net grows. There will
           be one list for split-windshield people and another
           for single-windshield people.

        -- This list, type2, will become the bay-window list.
           It will be administrated by Steve Dolan
           <dworkin@type2.com>.

        -- The splitty list will be called vintagebus and will
           be administrated by Thom Fitzpatrick <thom@calweb.com>.

        -- In the previous list split and in previous server
           changes, we have subscribed you from old list to
           the new one without any action on your part. Please
           note that we are NOT GOING TO DO THAT this time. You
           will be given subscribe instructions for both lists
           and you will then have to subscribe yourself to the
           list(s) you want. This is because we think we are
           carrying lots of people who aren't really reading the
           list and this will cut that dead weight out. We'd like
           to cut the server load if we can, it is serious
           bandwidth.

        -- On Sunday night we will erase the roster; on Monday
           when you log in, get on the list(s) you want and
           just continue on. The automated subscription process
           takes two minutes maximum.

        -- Both lists will be running out of type2.com, through
           the gracious generosity of Duelist <duelist@azaccess.com>
           and Arizona Access, without whom I don't think we could
           survive.

        -- I understand that some folks will need to vent, Heaven
           knows they did last time. 8) You can pretty much say what
           you want, just please put "list split" somewhere in your
           subject line so people can delete if they want.

        -- I said once that this is the best group of people I have
           ever worked with, on-line or otherwise, and despite the
           idiot-mail and a few juicy flames that is more true now than
           when I said it (because a thick skin enables you to discern
           the important). I remain honored to have worked with you.
           I've been on the net a *long* time and been in a lot of fora
           and there was never anything else like this that I saw.

--Ken
  68 Westy, Admin --type2-- The Volkswagen Bus Mailing List