<VV> ecomminuque

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

Larry wrote, on VV:

>Thank you Frank,
>I wholeheartedly agree with all these points.  While VV doesn't catch all the members it does get the issues out there very well as witnessed by these last few days.  If I only communicate with  the directors I doubt I'd ever hear anything again.  Our president does not agree with this approach, however, it seems a number do. 
>
 More agreement!

VV may not be the ideal forum, nor the forum preferred by the President, 
but certainly at least one of the de facto political forums where 
discussion actually takes place. The only January post on this "dues" 
topic on CORSA's Chapters list is the President's editorial from Jan 17th.

I must credit two directors with personal communications as replies to a 
recent BOD list posting.  Thank you.

Although I don't like the idea, I could tolerate a raise in dues -- $45 
/  $49, who cares, if it starts with a $4x -- $5x would be a bit 
shocking.  For that $7-11 you can barely feed two people at McDonald's 
-- if you have a collectible car, it is a trivial amount, it is just the 
idea that is troublesome.

Mandatory CORSA membership of Chapters would hurt many of the Chapters' 
memberships -- CORSA needs to do a better job of selling itself and 
providing something more tangible (maybe just a feeling of good will, 
but it would need selling, i.e., what Corsa does for you) to those local 
members that don't go traipsing off to Conventions every so often. If 
one feels this membership needs to be mandatory, I like George Jones' 
idea of grandfathering in those non-Corsa Chapter members.

If the Communique is too expensive, It could always be reduced to every 
other month, or Quarterly, like the old CORSA Quarterly, and infill the 
between months with an electronic newsletter, ala the old Communique of 
the earlier years when we had the Quarterly.  The slick paper, 4-color 
publication needs to be continued for everyone to take advantage of the 
economics of scale -- once you are set up to print one, the next 3,999 
are much cheaper -- and to demonstrate continued purpose to the 
organization.

For public usage, Corvair Society of America (CORSA) says far more about 
our organization than just the acronym.

The BOD needs to listen (read) those interesting new opinions / ideas 
expressed on Virtual Vairs, and other forums where actual discussion is 
taking place, by folks like Jeff Aaronson.

If we are supposed to use the "Chaptes" list for discussion, quit 
"hiding" it:
     "There currently are no publicly-advertised Mailman 
<http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html> mailing lists on 
www.vv.corvair.org. To visit the general information page for an 
unadvertised list, open a URL similar to 
[http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/listinfo], but with a '/' and the 
list name appended.
     "...the CORSA Chapters list, topics should be directly relevant 
toCorvair club matters, or at least about car club issues in general. In 
particular:
            - No politics, unless they have *explicit* club content."

My opinions, no criticism of volunteers or staff intended,

"Keep the Love Alive"

Bill Strickland
CORSA Oregon
was 04693, now 028948