I say we go to Mark Bradakis and ask to be added to Team.Net under the
lotus-cars name, and not just under chapman-era.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Engel <tengel@isd.net>
To: Keith Gustafson <gusmach@shore.net>; chapman-era@autox.team.net
<chapman-era@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, October 06, 2000 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Lotus list
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith Gustafson <gusmach@shore.net>
>To: chapman-era@autox.team.net <chapman-era@autox.team.net>
>Date: Friday, October 06, 2000 8:09 PM
>Subject: Lotus list
>>
>>Haven't seen any traffic in days, has that list crashed?
>
>
>Keith,
>
>Yes, it crashed big time. Unfortunately, the account was low-budget and
>listed as
>an "Unserviced Account"... or something like that. The bottom line is
>that it wasn't backed up. 1200 member addresses are lost, so even
when...
>IF... they get it back up and running, they can't contact everyone to
>advise 'em to re-subscribe.
>
>Apparently the timing is bad as well. The list doctor, Alan Perry is
>swamped and can't deal with it right now.
>
>Some folks on the other Lotus model-specific lists have been talking about
>what can be don't to help. Either real help or $$. So far, nothing
>concrete.
>
>If you want to stay in touch, I suggest you subscribe to one of the other
>lists and keep an ear to the ground. Apparently there's some information
>on the Golden Gate Lotus Club's website. The text pasted onto the end of
>this message was snipped from the Europa List. Nothing specific, just
>chatter.
>
>
>Regards,
>Tim Engel
>
>
>*************************
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ken.landaiche@nokia.com <ken.landaiche@nokia.com>
>To: pmbsab@infi.net <pmbsab@infi.net>; RLaMoreaux@BTE-US.com
><RLaMoreaux@BTE-US.com>
>Cc: scott@alwaysthinking.com <scott@alwaysthinking.com>;
>lotuseuropa@egroups.com <lotuseuropa@egroups.com>
>Date: Friday, October 06, 2000 11:50 AM
>Subject: the "discussion on how to proceed" (WAS RE: [lotuseuropa] Lotus L
>ist Defunct)
>
>
>>I imagine that most people on The List are also on the various
>>model-specific lists. If we got together a list of all of the sub lists,
>>Alan could post a message to all of them to resubscribe to The Big One
when
>>it finds a new home.
>>
>>I guess that means we have started the "discussion on how to proceed". :)
>>
>>Ken Landaiche
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: EXT Peter Blackford [mailto:pmbsab@infi.net]
>>
>>I'm sure many of us have goodly portions of said list in our
>>various address books. Can we join the "discussion on how to
>>proceed" and contribute what we have to a common resource?
>>
>>Sure do miss The List!
>>
>>Pete
>>
>>
>>Rob LaMoreaux wrote:
>>>
>>> > BTW, is the Lotus list off line? I haven't had a digest show up for
>>> > several days.
>>> >
>>>
>>> This was posted on the LotusElan Email List and comes from the Golden
>>> Gate Lotus site. There have been suggestions to revive it on eGroups.
>>>
>>> Steve Bearden wrote:
>>> >
>>> > <snip>
>>> > > A few days ago I "fell off" the Lotus List.
>>> > <snip>
>>> >
>>> > . . . They posted a message from Alan Perry as follows:
>>> >
>>> > "The Lotus Cars Mailing List is currently defunct.
>>> > The computer that has been hosting the mailing list
>>> > suffered a
>>> > disk failure on September 27. The company that owns
>>> > that computer (Best/Verio) has no plans to restore the
>>> > service. Also, the company claims that the mailing
>>> > list was an "unsupported service", so it did no
>>> > back-ups on
>>> > the computer and the membership list has been lost."
>>> >
>>> > How to proceed from here is under discussion.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for listening.
>>> >
>>> > Steve Bearden
>>>
>>> Robert D. LaMoreaux
>>> BT Electronics LLC
>>> 22700 Heslip Dr.
>>> NoVI, MI 48375
>>> Main Phone:(248)-348-6560
>>> Direct Phone:(248)-348-6504
>>> Fax:(248)-348-6558
>>> Email:RLaMoreaux@bte-us.com
>>> Alternate Email:Rob_LaMoreaux@compuserve.com
>
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