The biggest faux pax that I see with "Team 404" is that no one Googled "Team 404" before deciding on the name (and found out that it is already in common usage), or that if you just put in "404" you get links, etc. to the "Page not found" error one gets when a server cannot deliver the page you just asked for (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404).
All the tools... And no one uses them... Cheers, Stefan Creaser Staff Design Engineer; Physical Design Group; ARM 5707 Southwest Parkway, Bldg 1, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78735, USA. Direct: +1-512-314-1012, Internal: 11012. Email: stefan.crea...@arm.com. Skype: stefan_creaser -----Original Message----- From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of Wm Shrewsbury via Texascavers Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 7:18 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Join the NSS and Team 404 Bill Jackson is the NSS Fundraising Chairman. I passed along your concerns to him, and his response is below. (forwarded by Wm Shrewsbury) -------------------- Jerry, the emailed message from the Fundraising Chair reports the needs of your Society. This one was to let everyone know we need donations earmarked for the HQ property which we purchased nearly five years ago. Just like everything in life, there are peaks and troughs in fundraising. We have had a recent trough over the last six months and want to get it back to a peak, and with continuing fundraising efforts to keep it up so that we can pay the mortgage ahead of schedule and quit giving interest to a third party. [blah blah blah] In the meantime, we have our new HQ building that has to be refinanced by this December. The less we have to refinance the better, of course, and thus this appeal. We sure could use Team 404 members and grotto donations to help with this. Bill Jackson Fundraising Chairman National Speleological Society fundrais...@caves.org From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of via Texascavers Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 4:17 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Cc: texascavers@texascavers.com; speleoste...@aol.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Join the NSS and Team 404 Rather than "embarrass" our existing members, and further alienating those peripheral grotto members that don't desire to be formally NSS affiliated, why don't we share a bit of that embarrassment with the NSS leadership that decided their going-in business model for paying off the new NSS headquarters would be begging for donations from their membership. When that wisdom went south with the financial downturn, our present strategy is to now shake the donor tree even harder to the point of needing to embarrass existing members who don't sign up fast enough, and to force non-NSS grotto members to sign up or leave the grotto. Can you guys kick yourself in the ass any faster ? Jerry Atkinson. Sent from my iPhone On May 10, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Alex Sproul via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: Thank you for this Bill! This needs to be said, many times and loudly. If all the hangers-on joined up, even without joining Team 404, the mortgage issue would essentially be solved. And it would cost 'em less than pizza and beer one Saturday night. It's been a pet peeve of mine for many years that these provisions are never enforced. As you are doing, we need to embarrass the slackers into doing their part. We also need to embarrass our member slackers into renewing on time, so the staff doesn't spend so much of their time and effort in removing members, only to reinstate them a week later. They still have to wade through 200+ of those every month; that's more than a quarter of our membership. We need to stand tall and be proud of our Society,...and "frown at those who are not"! Alex PS Fantastic job with this year's PESH expedition! ________________________________________ [more blah blah blah] IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
