With your "Real Soon!" time lines, shouldn't it be: "Winter 2000 Fund
Drive?" :^)
Phil Ethier
Paul Czarnecki
MJB
JD Kemp
Karl Rickert
But I *may* have an unfair advantage.
Matt Murray
mattm@optonline.net
> On the other hand, if you count yourself as one who wishes to contribute
to the
> continuation of what I am up to, here's what I request. Send a check,
payable
> in United States funds to the order of 'Fat Chance Garage' to
>
> Fat Chance Garage
> PO Box 58333
> Salt Lake City, Utah 84158
For the ultimate Rally book and information,
go to http://www.goss.com/rally.htm
and type in "MU01" for a ten percent discount.
Copyright 2001, Matthew D. Murray. Permission to reproduce these words
on the list explicitly granted.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J Bradakis" <mjb@autox.team.net>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 8:05 PM
Subject: Spring 2001 Fund Drive [Long and probably boring]
> Yes, I remember that it was only a few months ago I sent out a little
notice
> about Team.Net funding to the autox list. Basically, as surprising as it
may
> seem, I got a bit behind in list admin stuff. To give you some idea of
how
> far behind I am, just last week I unearthed a few checks sent in during
that
> effort. Would the earth stop spinning if I were to ever get caught up and
> take care of things in a timely fashion?
>
> Anyway, the rather lengthy bit below is provided more for the sake of
getting
> the autox and ax-digest on the same schedule as all the rest of the lists
here,
> feel free to move it to the bit bucket ASAP. What folks on this list may
wish
> to do is consider the "Driver to Nationals" campaign, and whether we
should
> continue it as before, modify the criteria, or ??? Interest in DTN seems
to
> be fading a bit as I vaguely recall from last year. How many of you can
name
> in sequence the Team.Net DTN recipients? It is something to think about
as
> the season gets underway.
>
> mjb.
> ----
>
> Ah, here in the Western United States spring is in the air, along with
various
> sorts of pollen. Where're my tissues?
>
> For those of you who've been on one of the many autox.team.net lists for
more
> than a year or so, you know the story. Perhaps some of you who have
recently
> joined don't realize there is a man behind the curtain. Wonder how much
> longer that "Wizard of Oz" reference will still be recognized?
>
> The server for the mailing lists, the www.team.net web pages, and the FTP
> archives were originally set up over a decade ago using various bits of
> hardware related to my systems administration job at the University of
Utah.
> Things have grown since the days of just two lists, autox and
british-cars,
> with a handful of subscribers on each. Now we are talking in the range of
85
> or so different lists, with a subscriber base of around 16,000. Neat.
>
> We are also no longer affiliated with the University of Utah, the services
for
> the mailing lists, www.team.net and ftp.team.net are now provided out of
my
> home. So taking a cue from my favorite radio station here in Salt Lake
City,
> KRCL ( www.krcl.org ) I've started semi-annual fund drives to raise a few
> bucks to cover my out of pocket costs. The radio station just finished
their
> fund raiser, time once again for the Team.Net version. Certainly a
different
> scale, as KRCL needs about $65 per hour run, autox.team.net needs a little
> more than that *per month* to cover the costs of connecting to the world.
And
> the radio station prattles on about the fund drive for over a week, this
will
> be the only "commercial" you'll get from me until October.
>
> My request is simple - contribute some money. It doesn't have to be much,
> I've often said that a dollar a year for every list subscription would be
> funding heaven for me. And usually I get a few envelopes in the mail with
> no name, no return address, no nothing, except one United States dollar
bill.
> I love it!
>
> More likely is that under 1% of list subscribers will send in donations of
> 5, 10, 20 or whatever dollars. A few commercial endeavors that have
benefited
> from exposure on one or more of the various lists will sometimes chip in
> healthy contributions. In truth, I often think that the modest list
> expenses could be covered by selling "advertising" on the lists, something
> along the form of a trailer line like
>
> This Month's Mini-Baja list brought to you by Aunt Bertha's Muffins
> www.oven-brown-and-tasty.com
>
>
> One guy slapping away at the keyboard in the dead of night isn't going to
> attract the likes of Disney, AOL-Time-Warner, Viacom or one of the other
> massive conglomerates trying to dictate how you spend your entertainment
> dollars, so I come to you.
>
> If you just subscribed and have no idea what you are getting into, or just
> spent a zillion dollars airlifting in parts hoping to make that first big
> event of the season, if you sent in some bucks last time or are just plain
> broke, or if you despise everything I do and say but stay subscribed to
some
> lists anyway, don't sweat it. It will all work out. Not everyone is that
> comfortable sending money off to a flakey, badly procrastinating fellow
like
> myself. It may take me months to even get around to opening your letter,
> let alone sending off a thank you note.
>
> On the other hand, if you count yourself as one who wishes to contribute
to the
> continuation of what I am up to, here's what I request. Send a check,
payable
> in United States funds to the order of 'Fat Chance Garage' to
>
> Fat Chance Garage
> PO Box 58333
> Salt Lake City, Utah 84158
>
>
> Or you can send a note with Visa or Mastercard info (no American Express
or
> Discover yet) to the above address. Or you can FAX the info (account
number,
> expiration date, contribution amount) to me at 801-355-5438. Yes, I know
about
> various on-line payment services such as PayPal, and may someday use one,
but
> for now I have my reservations. Maybe next time.
>
> Now, here's a twist. In the past, I've admonished list subscribers
located
> overseas from the United States to not worry about the hassles of currency
> conversion, overseas postage and such; relax, your net.friends here will
cover
> it. The other day I had a chat with someone about the recent new designs
for
> US of A paper money. And even with the facelift, the United States has
some
> of the most boring paper money in the world. So here's an odd request, a
> personal favor to me, if you will. If you live somewhere in the world
that
> has pictures and colors and neat stuff on your currency, I would
appreciate it
> if you would consider putting a small denomination bill in the post to the
> address listed above. I'll put the currency on the side of the server or
> someplace visible, and when those times come along when I wonder why I
bother
> doing what I do, I'll be reminded of the people around the world that
enjoy
> the efforts of those that contribute to these lists.
>
> Thanks,
> mjb.
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