David Staten <Dastaten@earthlink.net> wrote:

"""
 Also, everyone so far who has "elected" to participate, I have gleaned your
email address and will be sending a mass email in the next 48 hours for the
purpose of sharing individual emails with the group members en-masse. Those
with mass mail spam blockers, be aware that it will be coming. If someone sent
me their email OFF list and does not desire broadcast, re-contact me within
the next 36 hours, and I will remove it from that mass email.
"""

David...

First of all, count me in as well.  As for mass mailings, I'd suggest that instead of doing CC's to everyone that you use the BCC (blind carbon copy) function, as that removes the "mass mailing" look from your posts and hides all email addresses from each of the recipients.  After all, we already have the ability to locate everyone's email address from the FlyRotary archives, so this will simplify the matter and cut down on your bandwidth as well.
  

"""
 As for communication, I am NOT advocating taking us off list.. Marv's forum
is an excellent place to keep things talking, sharing ideas, talking about the
builds.. all the things that we all want to do anyways. Actual
committee-specific stuff would be better off-list unless you think it is data
that the community at large would benefit from, then by all means please share
it with FlyRotary. This is about SHARING info, not keeping it. With an
exception or two, so far, all I am asking for from the majority of everyone is
a donation of TIME.
"""
Absolutely you should plan on using FlyRotary as the means of publicly disemminating information to everyone... this will keep non-participants in the loop and ultimately bring feedback that would be otherwise unavailable. The non-participants may well have a different outlook that they wouldn't be able to share if totally out of the loop.  More input it good.

Given what we do here, there was recently a new "Murphy's Law" brought up by a long-time member of the Lancair Mail List named Gary Casey, and I thought it needed to be shared here... it's a real truism...

  "Although science and engineering rule, I'm sure it
has something to do with Murphy's law - any improvement you make is worth
half as much as you predict, but things gone wrong hurt twice as much as
they should."

Anyway, I'll do whatever I can to help out.
 
  <Marv>