Bob- What happened to the shy guy of the past.....I guess you are like a
flower blossoming........coming out of the cl....er garage.
Enjoying your latest humorous posts-
Chris in Trinidad
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> From: Bob Palmer <rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu>
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: SAC
> Date: Sunday, July 05, 1998 3:55 PM
>
> Listers,
>
> Just about the time you think this story couldn't get any more bizarre,
it
> does!! I have just learned from a reliable source close (very close) to
> TAC that while the aforementioned meeting in the S.F. bar was
transpiring,
> someone broke into the rotary powered Alpine conversion vehicle
belonging,
> of course, to the TAC member, and stole all of the TAC materials he was
> carrying inside including the certificates, stickers, and perhaps most
> significantly, the records of the last 38 TAC'd Tigers, including those
> TAC'd at Big Bear. This totally unforeseen turn of events has, frankly,
> caught the TAC people flat-footed as to how to deal with this devastating
> blow to its previously scrupulously run program. They are, at this
moment,
> working feverishly on a contingency plan to save the program. Since we
can
> only assume that whoever stole the TAC materials is a professional Alpine
> converter, then they are now in the position of having enough
> authentication certificates and stickers to do at least 500 Algers
complete
> with certificates and stickers. The implications, especially for those of
> us who have already paid our $35, are nothing short of mind-boggling!!
>
> The only possible response to this brazen act of treachery is to
institute
> a program for the Verification Of Authentication. (I'll wait a moment
> before continuing while this concept soaks in!) What that means for the
> close to 300 of us who have already been authenticated is that we will
need
> to have TAC revisit us and apply Verification Of Authentication or "VOA"
> stamps to our certificates and little silver stickers. An alternative
plan
> is a self-verification scheme that involves having the owners upload
their
> pertinent chassis and certificate information with the VOA stickers being
> sent to them by registered mail. This option will require the 128-bit
> encryption browser plug-in. However, to guard against the possibility of
> someone counterfeiting the VOA stamp, TAC is going to ask all of us to
> refrain from showing anyone either the certificate or the little silver
> sticker they place behind the glove box. Be especially careful of anyone
> posing as a prospective buyer. Their real intent may be to get a look at
> our VOA stamp and try and counterfeit it. BTW, the charge for the VOA
stamp
> will probably be another nominal $35.
>
> I'm sorry to have to upset so many of you out there with this news, but
> forewarned is forearmed. If any of you have suggestions as to how to
deal
> this bizarre turn of events, I'm sure the TAC people will be most
> appreciative. BTW, would any of you who had your Tigers TAC'd during the
> past six weeks please contact the people at TAC and let them know who you
are.
>
> For now, happy motoring,
>
> Bob
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