[Nobbc] UPDATE on membership and email list

[Mitrellaw at aol.com]

Greetings.....  And today is her birthday.  Happy birthday  Tch.     
Tim(D.Y.M.)
 
 
In a message dated 9/11/2011 12:32:52 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
paigetheman at gmail.com writes:

Tcherek  met a dozen or so NOBBCers when she invited us to visit Morgans 
west
coast  home above Bodega a few years ago.

Deano

-----Original  Message-----
From: nobbc-bounces at autox.team.net  [mailto:nobbc-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Greg Tatarian
Sent:  Friday, September 09, 2011 7:35 AM
To: North Bay British Car  Club
Subject: [Nobbc] UPDATE on membership and email list

Hi  Folks,

Well, I've now made a real pest of myself to Mark Bradakis, who  owns the 
autox.team.net server, which hosts this email list. I have asked  him by 
email about 7 times now to change the administrator passcode to my  own 
so I can moderate the email list, but have not heard anything back  from 
him, and still can't get access. I've seen his posts recently on one  of 
the Triumph lists, so he's in town, but for some reason, won't respond  
to me. Not sure what to do about this, other than wait it out.

I  have not yet received any information from Candy to help with access 
to  Facebook, which currently has no moderator. There are only about 23 
or so  members on the Facebook page, so it doesn't reflect the club very 
well,  and self-policing unwanted posts won't be possible without the 
owner to  take care of that, so I'm not sure where we stand in that 
regard. It is  possible that Candy won't be able to come up with any 
password, and we'll  have to find some way of dealing with closing the 
page and starting a new  one perhaps.

Candy also has not yet been able to find or send me the  membership list, 
which is probably on Ron's computer and needs to be  accessed by his 
brother, who lives back east. We may need to face the  possibility that 
we will have to generate a new membership list, starting  with those of 
us who are on the autox.team.net list (102 members), losing  about 50 
members in the process.

I have asked Tcherek Kamstra to  make 12 significant changes to the web 
site, which is woefully out of  date. Tcherek has always relied on active 
members, including Ron, to let  her know when changes were needed, but 
we've not done that, so the web  site has many problems that need to be 
fixed. I've asked Tcherek if she  still wants to do this job, or if she 
wants to take this opportunity to  pass it on to someone else in the 
club. Tcherek has done this job for  years and years, with no pay, and I 
assume, never even meeting any NOBBC  members (can't recall if she 
attended one of our drives or not). Anyhow,  she deserves our gratitude 
and appreciation, and complete understanding if  she wants to let someone 
handle the job. Sheryl King, who has extensive  experience, has agreed to 
take on the job if Tcherek is ready to move  on.

I've started a Google Groups page and sent you all invitations.  Most of 
you have not joined. The email has a link that you click to join -  very 
easy. It's not the best, but it's a start, and Google is soon coming  out 
with a competitor to Facebook, so we can look at that as a way to  share 
photos and information. I also started a club Picasaweb account, but  I 
am not very comfortable with broadcasting the password for security  
reasons, so for now it is a one-way street. You'll get invitations to  
the site soon.

Dan is handling the next drive, but soon the rainy  season will be upon 
us, and we'll move to the winter schedule of only the  4th Saturday of 
the month (plus any extra drives you want to organize).  The December 
drive will probably have to be moved up a week, since the 4th  Saturday 
is Christmas Eve. More on that later.

Cheers,

Greg  Tatarian
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