Thanks Jim and Tom C. too.  You guys are great.

'Absence makes the heart grow fonder.'

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, it seems that we're back. (Thank you Tom.)
>
> Not unlike our beloved vans, the vanagon@gerry list occasionally
> leaves us dead on the side of the Internet highway. When that happens,
> you first start not receiving list posts followed shortly by an
> overwhelming urge to send a note to vanagon@gerry asking if the list
> is down.  The next step seems to be asking all your friends and
> acquaintances, "Is the list down?" Then apparently a final collapse
> into an unreasonable fear that without the vanagon list posts, your
> engine will suffer terminal lifter clatter, your tires will all toss
> belts and your odometer will no longer function.
>
> Folks! There IS a solution!!!!!
>
> Way back when Gerry Skerbitz was asked to kindly remove his little
> mailing list from the UMN servers, we set up a 'spare' list to keep
> everyone up to speed on the move from lenti.umn.edu to vanagon.com.
> After the move was completed, we were going to shut down this 'spare'
> list but then gerry (small 'g' = computer hardware, large 'G' = human
> being) needed to be relocated so we left the spare list intact. Over
> the ensuing (omg) fifteen or so years, the 'spare' list has served us
> well during the infrequent outage.  It allows administrators to
> broadcast that yes indeed there is an outage and it allows those with
> the desire for the security of hundreds of like minded individuals to
> remain in contact.
>
> So....
>
> Please join  the 'spare' vanagon list at yahoogroups.  One can either
> browse to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vanagon or I believe that one
> can just send an e-mail to
> vanagon-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
>
> The traffic is not particularly heavy and will allow us to notify you
> when there are problems.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Arnott
> List Administrator
> vanagon@gerry
>

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Jake

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