<CORSA Chapters> spam infiltration, member counts, etc. sorry for the len...

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I'm noticing much less spam coming from our _mcca at corvair.org_ 
(mailto:mcca at corvair.org)  e-mail which bounces to my  personal e-mail. The only problem 
that I had was when I would hit the "Report  Spam" button and AOL would block 
everything from corvair.org or something else  bad. I haven't done that lately 
and haven't needed to in the last month or  so.
 
To answer your questions:
 
1) I'm our chapter contact to this list. Every now and then there's good  
stuff here. 
 
2) Our club operates on a calendar year cycle, dues due in Jan. New members  
get a pro-rated rate after June and we let them stay for free after Sept or 
Oct.  We are somewhat laid back about dues. We have yet to receive a "bill" from 
our  newsletter editor and our meeting place is free. We have had some fund 
raisers  and as far as I know, everyone pays dues with in a couple of months. 
That even  includes the folks we see one (or less) time a year.
 
3) We have 50 or 60 dues paying members mostly in Kansas. We do have a  
couple in OK and even one in NE. One former local still pays dues despite living  
in FL. Typically we have between 15 and 25 members at our monthly meetings.  
There's a core of 10 or so and the rest are the "come when they can"  members. 
Since our members are scattered over hundred of miles, we don't see  some for 
years. We always make a big deal to welcome them when we do see them. 
 
4) Membership in CORSA is not required for our club. I can't think of any  
regulars or near regulars (no one is an irregular :^) ) that are not members. We 
 had a CORSA membership drive a couple of years ago. One couple said they had 
the  paperwork filled out but needed a stamp to mail it in. The club 
secretary  immediately provided them with a stamp.
 
5) Harry sends out the forms in April (?)
 
6) Our newsletter goes out in both e-mail and USPS. The hardcopy version is  
in black and white (much more inferior). We can not go all e-mail because  
several of our members are computerless and some still have dial-up connections(  
all that's available in many rural areas). Our newsletter editor, Terry Kalp, 
 has never asked to be reimbursed for print and mailing the newsletter. That 
fact  alone get's him my vote for member of the year (we don't have a member 
of the  year, but Terry also opens his shop to our club 3 times a year for our 
Tunas and  is a great asset to our club in many ways). We also make our 
newsletter  available on our club web site (_www.kansascorvairs.org_ 
(http://www.kansascorvairs.org) ).
 
Ned