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Or.... maybe we could all try to contribute things - positive - in order to try to make the website a better source of information, more technical, parts and maintenance oriented than social. Lack of material/information and help/volunteers might be a problem.....it usually is. Tom Graziano > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any > advice in this forum.]---- > > > FWIW... > > From the perspective of a newbie quasi-Couper - my wife and I bought > a 1970 Mooney Cadet a few weeks ago - both ercoupe.org and > [email protected] have already been a mother lode of information. > I'll gladly suffer a little banter and BS in exchange. > > (And hey, I'm occasionally guilty of slinging some myself. :) > > Karl Sutterfield > N9532V, Mooney M10 Cadet s.n. 700022 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Box 294150 > Kerrville, TX 78029 > 830-257-5458 home office > 830-257-5468 facsimile > 830-285-7323 cell > > > At 10:31 AM 9/21/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before >>following any advice in this forum.]---- >> >> >>Just a general thought to those who think they are not getting much >>out of the EOC. Consider that Skip and Caroline are working >>for not much if anything at all and the effort necessary to >>accumulate the data just to put the monthly magazine together is a lot of >>trouble and the postage required is considerable. Whoever is >>willing to take it over and feel they can do a better job should step up >>to the plate. I work for a non profit activity who has about >>180,000 volunteers and only about 5 paid personnel. The volunteers pay >> all >>funds necessary to defray the cost of the paid personnel and costs >>of operation and distribution. We do that so all donations go toward the >>intended purpose of the donations. My duties are to receive >>donations and send acknowlegements and multitude >>letters and cards to others. At times the donors act as if we are >>all overpaid personnnel and make demands that are contridictory to why >> they >>make donations. So, the purpose of this diatribe is, give the >>operators of EOC some credit and thanks, I extend my appreciation >>to the gentleman >>Tom Laird-McConnell who gives of his time and money to provide what >>is necessary to operate this forum. TOM thanks you soooooo much. >>Skip and Caroline, Thank you for your efforts. >>Lee Browning >> >> >> >> >>Lee, >> >> >> >>The TECH and FLYIN lists are not affiliated with the Ercoupe Owners >>Club. They are sponsored by an individual, Tom Laird-McConnell, who >>donates the server capacity, software and his time to maintain them. >> >> >> >>Tom also hosts the EOC website http://ercoupe.org at no cost to the >>EOC except for their ownership of the domain. >> >> >> >>When the lists and website were created, Tom was an active Coupe >>owner. Since then, he's sold his Coupe and is continuing to host us >>just because he's a really nice guy. That's especially so when >>power surges fried his router a couple of times in the last >>year. But he got us up again. (Thanks, Tom.) >> >> >> >>Indeed, a lot of list members are not members of the EOC though I'd >>strongly encourage any current or prospective Coupe owner to join the >> EOC. >> >> >> >>I'd agree that it'd be very nice if the EOC could find a way to host >>a parts registry website, perhaps a WIKI type website editable by >>anyone. But the EOC has only two staff people, Skip and Caroline, >>and neither is a computer programmer or computer whiz. >> >> >> >>Volunteers encouraged! >> >> >> >>Ed Burkhead >> >>http://edburkhead.com >> >>ed -at- edburkhead???.com (change -at- to @ and remove "???") >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>============================================================================== >> >>To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>============================================================================== >>To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm >> >> >> > > ============================================================================== > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
