<VV> CORSA Membership

[Bryan Blackwell]

On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:48 PM, SPYDER62@aol.com wrote:

>  Well, without CORSA footing the bill Virtual Vairs would be history 
> then
> what?

Since I have some involvement here I'd like to respond to this, 
especially for the benefit of any BOD members who might think this is a 
good idea.

VV was started by a CORSA member, at no expense to the organization.  
Eventually I (also a CORSA member) picked up the list and put it on a 
server, again at no cost.  That was status quo for some time.  
Eventually we moved to a dedicated server of our own, which houses the 
CORSA web site, all the corvair.org lists (BOD list, e-mail aliases, 
Corvanatics, etc) and the chapter websites on corvair.org.  It also 
houses VV.  I provided the hardware, and VV members (I believe all of 
these are also CORSA members) donated enough money to cover something 
over a year's worth of the recurring costs.  Since then CORSA has 
covered the recurring costs, now $850/year.

About a year ago, VV members donated money for a new server (again 
mostly CORSA members) I've built that's about to go into service which 
will support some additional functionality.  In fact I'll be doing some 
work on it this weekend, so there will be some (hopefully) short 
outages.

The only condition of corvair.org being housed on the same box (and 
thus getting my labor for free) is that VV is a free service available 
to anyone who cares to subscribe.  I am about to send the bill for last 
year to CORSA.  If there is some consensus that VV should be restricted 
to CORSA members because CORSA covers those recurring costs, then I 
won't send the bill.  Simple as that.  I do not mean, BTW, to start 
some huge thread here.  If you are of this opinion, then send your mail 
to vairorg@corvair.org and Matt can keep track of the votes (sorry Matt 
:-).  If you're happy with a free VV, then see the next paragraph :-)

However, to the "everything should be free" crowd, I will point out 
that without *CORSA*, the organization, there would be no VV.  Not only 
did CORSA members, by and large, get VV moving, almost all of the 
regulars that answer questions are CORSA members.  So, if you want to 
support VV, then join CORSA.  Take a look at how much your local 
chapter might pay for e-mail addresses, web space (with a significant 
amount of storage), a list (without ads or spam), etc.  If that's worth 
something to you, get your chapter website, then join CORSA at 
https://secure.corvair.org/corsa/secure/csgnupfm.html

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