| -----Original Message-----
| From: owner-bricklin@autox.team.net
| [mailto:owner-bricklin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of me
| Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 1:16 AM
| To: bricklin@autox.team.net
| Subject: The new web site and issues
|
| Hello everyone and congrats to everyone on a job well done.
| This is the best bricklin site on the net and a lot of people
| have contributed many long hard
| hours of their own time and money on making it happen. I
| myself feel that
| each and everyone of the brick owners would be willing to
| offer any help that
| they were able to. I'm new to the bricklin world
| /bricklin.org and don't
| know the policies of the club so I'd like to offer some
| suggestions. It seems to me that maybe the club should open
| an account for the membership funds. Then a simple balance
| sheet could be posted. That way everyone would have an
| insight and understanding of the membership fees spending.
Please remember BI's origins - it was set in 1976 - well before the WWW. It
is not an 'Internet Club' - although the club has generously posted much of
their resources on the web - at the expense OF their members.
The club used to devote a couple of pages to the balance sheet once a year.
I don't believe they still do it, but I'm sure any BI member could get a
copy if desired. I believe the magazine is what takes up most of the funds -
any quality magazine is expensive to produce, especially in small
quantities.
| I personally feel that the time, equipment, programming,
| brickline and not to mention all the free info/help for the
| asking is the best $40 dollars you will ever spend towards
| your bricklin. Besides what school can you go to learn to
| be a auto mechanic?? You might not be able to see or touch
| it but it is still
| in your car. You really have to ask yourself, where would
| you go for help
| when you have problems with your car?
Agreed. And the club survives with members such as yourself.
| I read someone's story
| on the net and he said he pulled into a car dealership once
| for repairs. When the service manager saw him pulling up he
| started waving at him to leave the lot. So again thanks and
| I hope this helps in some way. oh btw, The auto
| transporters still haven't picked up my #2082/white from
| reno/nv yet so I
| don't have any dumb noob questions for you all yet! best
| regards, Frank
| Cacciatore
|
|