Membership Renewal

bentbutstr8 · 11 July 2011 04:53

BenT for example who actually has 26 letters in his full name and whose real initials are BEST.:-)

BenT

sent from my electronic leash

On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:28 PM, "Les Harris" <leslieharris@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

It’s not the email addresses that are the problem, it is the user names. I know who Scott Pitcher and Phill Lander are but who knows who (or what!) Hairy Fairy or Moo Cow might be? The Yahoo membership list is under user name and the real name does not appear unless the real name is the same as the user name.

I have resolved this by copying the address line of each membership reply and pasting it into a table which lists real name, user name and group email address. I have also added state and district to the table and I will post the table after the membership period has expired so that members can see who lives close by. This might help facilitate local get-togethers.

Les

From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Pitcher
Sent: 11 July 2011 14:11
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal

One of the problems with matching names to email addresses is difficult as many are hotmail or gmail addresses and it is very difficult to get anthing that even closely resmebles your name as hundreds of other people already tried to set up the same hotmail or gmail addresss.

syncroaustralia · 11 July 2011 04:57

Ben,

We make an exception in your case – and for a few other US members!!!!

Les

From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of BenT Syncro
Sent: 11 July 2011 14:54
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal

BenT for example who actually has 26 letters in his full name and whose real initials are BEST.:-)

BenT

sent from my electronic leash

On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:28 PM, "Les Harris" <leslieharris@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

It’s not the email addresses that are the problem, it is the user names. I know who Scott Pitcher and Phill Lander are but who knows who (or what!) Hairy Fairy or Moo Cow might be? The Yahoo membership list is under user name and the real name does not appear unless the real name is the same as the user name.

I have resolved this by copying the address line of each membership reply and pasting it into a table which lists real name, user name and group email address. I have also added state and district to the table and I will post the table after the membership period has expired so that members can see who lives close by. This might help facilitate local get-togethers.

Les

From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Pitcher
Sent: 11 July 2011 14:11
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal

One of the problems with matching names to email addresses is difficult as many are hotmail or gmail addresses and it is very difficult to get anthing that even closely resmebles your name as hundreds of other people already tried to set up the same hotmail or gmail addresss.

bentbutstr8 · 11 July 2011 05:11

I knew that, Les. Just thought that was a perfect example. It would be a minor challenge to find my full name listed online as I endeavored to keep it out for security reasons. It's normally fine to disclose names in a closed group but a problem in open forums.

BenT

On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:57 PM, "Les Harris" <leslieharris@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

Ben,

We make an exception in your case – and for a few other US members!!!!

Les

From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of BenT Syncro
Sent: 11 July 2011 14:54
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal

BenT for example who actually has 26 letters in his full name and whose real initials are BEST.:-)

BenT

sent from my electronic leash

On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:28 PM, "Les Harris" <leslieharris@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

It’s not the email addresses that are the problem, it is the user names. I know who Scott Pitcher and Phill Lander are but who knows who (or what!) Hairy Fairy or Moo Cow might be? The Yahoo membership list is under user name and the real name does not appear unless the real name is the same as the user name.

I have resolved this by copying the address line of each membership reply and pasting it into a table which lists real name, user name and group email address. I have also added state and district to the table and I will post the table after the membership period has expired so that members can see who lives close by. This might help facilitate local get-togethers.

Les

From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Pitcher
Sent: 11 July 2011 14:11
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal

One of the problems with matching names to email addresses is difficult as many are hotmail or gmail addresses and it is very difficult to get anthing that even closely resmebles your name as hundreds of other people already tried to set up the same hotmail or gmail addresss.

syncroaustralia · 11 July 2011 05:18

And that was one of the several reasons that impelled me to make this a closed forum. We had flocks of anonymous members – about 340 members at one stage, most of them anonymous – and some of them were a real concern.

Les

From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of BenT Syncro
Sent: 11 July 2011 15:11
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal

I knew that, Les. Just thought that was a perfect example. It would be a minor challenge to find my full name listed online as I endeavored to keep it out for security reasons. It's normally fine to disclose names in a closed group but a problem in open forums.

BenT

jshvnl · 11 July 2011 08:49

Hi Les, Please renew my membership and heads up for all you hard work with such a great info resourse for all us synchronaughts in oz..

regards
josh van niel

--- On Mon, 4/7/11, syncroaustralia <leslieharris@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

From: syncroaustralia <leslieharris@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Received: Monday, 4 July, 2011, 5:40 PM

Membership Renewal 2011
At the beginning of August 2009, the Syncro_T3_Australia group underwent an extensive reorganization, the principal feature of which was the requirement for all members to re-register. This had been made necessary by the presence on the membership list of anonymous traders who were using the group for free advertising to a captive audience. The membership list was also thickly populated with anonymous members of whom we knew nothing.
Syncro_T3_Australia is a mutual technical support and advice group which has no need of anonymous members or anonymous traders. It is a lot easier to give support and advice when we know whom we are supporting so we asked all members to identify themselves and establish their bona fifes. The new membership requirements rectified that. The anonymous traders disappeared overnight and every member on the list is now known.
To maintain this, memberships will be confirmed each year. (I intended to call for renewals in August 2010 but difficult personal circumstances made this impossible.)
To confirm you membership, please reply to this email, including you full actual name, not your user name. This is an important requirement because I otherwise have no ready means of relating user names to actual names.
Anyone who does not reply within four weeks will be dropped from the membership list.
August 2011 sees us entering the eighth year of Syncro_T3_Australia. The progenitor of the group began in January 2004, when I started an email newsletter and sent it to the handful of Syncro owners for whom I had email addresses. In August of that year, I decided that creating a dedicated Internet technical support and advice group would work a lot better.
At that time, the choice of free internet groups was very limited and I went with the most widely used, which was Yahoo. The Yahoo format is a bit on the clunky side but has served us well over these years.
Mark Kofahl has established a website, www.syncro.com.au, which is as smooth as the Yahoo site is clunky. It contains extensive picture albums and we will look at making more use of it as a readily accessible repository for Syncro information in the future.
I give my personal thanks to the long-standing members here and overseas who have contributed so much over these years; these are the people who turned the concept of a mutual technical support and advice resource into a reality.
My thanks go also to my two back-ups, moderators Francesca Coles and Mark Kofahl.
Les Harris
Syncro_T3_Australia

alison100au · 11 July 2011 10:19

Les

I'm up for renewal, and thanks very much for all your hard work, it is much appreciated.

Bruce Black CQ

On 04/07/2011, at 5:40 PM, syncroaustralia wrote:

Membership Renewal 2011

outbacktrakka-y7mail · 14 July 2011 01:22

Hi,

Michael Farrell here please renew my membership.

nerdnetty · 14 July 2011 10:03

Les, Not sure if you got my renewal but here it is again Pete Wilson,Keep up the GOOD Work, Pete

--- In Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com, "Les Harris" <leslieharris@...> wrote:
>
> Skot,
>
> There are more than 170 members listed but only 60 have renewed so far and
> it will be interesting to see how many do renew.
>
> Doing the renewals is a bit of a pain but we do have to be vigilant about
> our privacy and security.
>
> There was a privacy breach earlier this year when a member received a
> contact from a trader who is not a member. It was very easy to work out
> where the breach had come from and I don't expect the member responsible to
> renew.
>
> One of the most difficult management/security aspects is that there is no
> connection between the Yahoo group membership list and the actual names of
> members. I have rectified this by creating a new internal membership list
> that matches user names to actual names.
>
> Les
>
> _____
>
> From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Pitcher
> Sent: 11 July 2011 11:34
> To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal
>
>
>
> I didn't realise how many members we had - makes your efforts even more
> amazing Les. I still remember you phone call when you started this up from
> the US register. Your a very brave man and a blessing to all those with a
> vision to buy the best vehicle ever put into production.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Skot
>

syncroaustralia · 14 July 2011 10:05

Peter,

You have already renewed.

Les

From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nerdnetty
Sent: 14 July 2011 20:04
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Re: Membership Renewal

Les, Not sure if you got my renewal but here it is again Pete Wilson,Keep up the GOOD Work, Pete

darrylrobins · 15 July 2011 07:52

Please renew my membership. Darryl Robins, Perth, WA.

--- In Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com, "syncroaustralia" <leslieharris@...> wrote:
>
>
> Membership Renewal 2011
>
> At the beginning of August 2009, the Syncro_T3_Australia group underwent
> an extensive reorganization, the principal feature of which was the
> requirement for all members to re-register. This had been made
> necessary by the presence on the membership list of anonymous traders
> who were using the group for free advertising to a captive audience.
> The membership list was also thickly populated with anonymous members of
> whom we knew nothing.
>
> Syncro_T3_Australia is a mutual technical support and advice group which
> has no need of anonymous members or anonymous traders. It is a lot
> easier to give support and advice when we know whom we are supporting so
> we asked all members to identify themselves and establish their bona
> fifes. The new membership requirements rectified that. The anonymous
> traders disappeared overnight and every member on the list is now known.
>
> To maintain this, memberships will be confirmed each year. (I intended
> to call for renewals in August 2010 but difficult personal circumstances
> made this impossible.)
>
> To confirm you membership, please reply to this email, including you
> full actual name, not your user name. This is an important
> requirement because I otherwise have no ready means of relating user
> names to actual names.
>
> Anyone who does not reply within four weeks will be dropped from the
> membership list.
>
> August 2011 sees us entering the eighth year of Syncro_T3_Australia.
> The progenitor of the group began in January 2004, when I started an
> email newsletter and sent it to the handful of Syncro owners for whom I
> had email addresses. In August of that year, I decided that creating a
> dedicated Internet technical support and advice group would work a lot
> better.
>
> At that time, the choice of free internet groups was very limited and I
> went with the most widely used, which was Yahoo. The Yahoo format is a
> bit on the clunky side but has served us well over these years.
>
> Mark Kofahl has established a website, www.syncro.com.au
> <http://www.syncro.com.au/> , which is as smooth as the Yahoo site is
> clunky. It contains extensive picture albums and we will look at making
> more use of it as a readily accessible repository for Syncro information
> in the future.
>
> I give my personal thanks to the long-standing members here and overseas
> who have contributed so much over these years; these are the people who
> turned the concept of a mutual technical support and advice resource
> into a reality.
>
> My thanks go also to my two back-ups, moderators Francesca Coles and
> Mark Kofahl.
>
>
>
> Les Harris
>
> Syncro_T3_Australia
>

andysummertimerolls · 17 July 2011 00:14

Hi Les,

Thanks for your great efforts in keeping this show on the road. Although I dont have much spare time nowadays due to work commitments, I really enjoy reading the posts which helps to keep me inspired to one day get my Syncro back on the road. In the meantime however I continue to find those special parts to one day really 'Pimp my Ride'. See you at the DOTVW, possibly with Syncro but more likely with Ute.

Cheers Les and yes please I would like to renew my membership.

Andy Sinclair. St.Kilda, Victoria.

From: syncroaustralia

Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 5:40 PM

To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal

Membership Renewal 2011

At the beginning of August 2009, the Syncro_T3_Australia group underwent an extensive reorganization, the principal feature of which was the requirement for all members to re-register. This had been made necessary by the presence on the membership list of anonymous traders who were using the group for free advertising to a captive audience. The membership list was also thickly populated with anonymous members of whom we knew nothing.

Syncro_T3_Australia is a mutual technical support and advice group which has no need of anonymous members or anonymous traders. It is a lot easier to give support and advice when we know whom we are supporting so we asked all members to identify themselves and establish their bona fifes. The new membership requirements rectified that. The anonymous traders disappeared overnight and every member on the list is now known.

To maintain this, memberships will be confirmed each year. (I intended to call for renewals in August 2010 but difficult personal circumstances made this impossible.)

To confirm you membership, please reply to this email, including you full actual name, not your user name. This is an important requirement because I otherwise have no ready means of relating user names to actual names.

Anyone who does not reply within four weeks will be dropped from the membership list.

August 2011 sees us entering the eighth year of Syncro_T3_Australia. The progenitor of the group began in January 2004, when I started an email newsletter and sent it to the handful of Syncro owners for whom I had email addresses. In August of that year, I decided that creating a dedicated Internet technical support and advice group would work a lot better.

At that time, the choice of free internet groups was very limited and I went with the most widely used, which was Yahoo. The Yahoo format is a bit on the clunky side but has served us well over these years.

Mark Kofahl has established a website, www.syncro.com.au, which is as smooth as the Yahoo site is clunky. It contains extensive picture albums and we will look at making more use of it as a readily accessible repository for Syncro information in the future.

I give my personal thanks to the long-standing members here and overseas who have contributed so much over these years; these are the people who turned the concept of a mutual technical support and advice resource into a reality.

My thanks go also to my two back-ups, moderators Francesca Coles and Mark Kofahl.

Les Harris

Syncro_T3_Australia

gj.dore · 17 July 2011 23:00

Hello Les, greg dore in north queensland here, i would like to renew my membership also ,thanks heaps

--- In Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com, "Les Harris" <leslieharris@...> wrote:
>
>
> As advised via a direct email to all members and by a posted message to
> the group, this group is being reorganized. Existing members are asked
> to renew their membership by completing and returning the
> re-registration form sent out with both emails and also available in the
> Files section. The reasons for the reorganization were sent out with
> the emails and is also available in the Files section.
>
> The origonal cut-off date was put at the end of September. Due to the
> abysmal response - 36 out of 200! - this date is being shortened to 31
> August. Anyone who has not responded by then will be removed from the
> membership list.
>
> Les Harris
>
> Syncro_T3_Australia
>

attwoodpeter-ymail.c · 18 July 2011 03:10

Les

Can you please tell where my Chassis No would be located

Cheers
Peter A

________________________________________
From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com [Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Attwood (89008107)
Sent: Monday, 4 July 2011 5:44 PM
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal

Hi Les
Confirming, this is
Peter Attwood
Inverleigh 3321

I have forgotten my yahoo details, can you provide these again?
Cheers

Peter Attwood
________________________________
From: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com [Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of syncroaustralia [leslieharris@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Monday, 4 July 2011 5:40 PM
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal

Membership Renewal 2011
At the beginning of August 2009, the Syncro_T3_Australia group underwent an extensive reorganization, the principal feature of which was the requirement for all members to re-register. This had been made necessary by the presence on the membership list of anonymous traders who were using the group for free advertising to a captive audience. The membership list was also thickly populated with anonymous members of whom we knew nothing.
Syncro_T3_Australia is a mutual technical support and advice group which has no need of anonymous members or anonymous traders. It is a lot easier to give support and advice when we know whom we are supporting so we asked all members to identify themselves and establish their bona fifes. The new membership requirements rectified that. The anonymous traders disappeared overnight and every member on the list is now known.
To maintain this, memberships will be confirmed each year. (I intended to call for renewals in August 2010 but difficult personal circumstances made this impossible.)
To confirm you membership, please reply to this email, including you full actual name, not your user name. This is an important requirement because I otherwise have no ready means of relating user names to actual names.
Anyone who does not reply within four weeks will be dropped from the membership list.
August 2011 sees us entering the eighth year of Syncro_T3_Australia. The progenitor of the group began in January 2004, when I started an email newsletter and sent it to the handful of Syncro owners for whom I had email addresses. In August of that year, I decided that creating a dedicated Internet technical support and advice group would work a lot better.
At that time, the choice of free internet groups was very limited and I went with the most widely used, which was Yahoo. The Yahoo format is a bit on the clunky side but has served us well over these years.
Mark Kofahl has established a website, www.syncro.com.au<http://www.syncro.com.au/>, which is as smooth as the Yahoo site is clunky. It contains extensive picture albums and we will look at making more use of it as a readily accessible repository for Syncro information in the future.
I give my personal thanks to the long-standing members here and overseas who have contributed so much over these years; these are the people who turned the concept of a mutual technical support and advice resource into a reality.
My thanks go also to my two back-ups, moderators Francesca Coles and Mark Kofahl.
Les Harris
Syncro_T3_Australia

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subimanx · 18 July 2011 04:28

Hi Greg....where are you located???

Michael. Townsville

Michael Hutchinson, Townsville, 88 Syncro, Manx buggys all powered by SUBARU!!!!!!!

From: "Greg" <gj.dore@yahoo.com>

Sender: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:00:27 -0000

To: <Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com>

ReplyTo: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Re: Membership Renewal

Hello Les, greg dore in north queensland here, i would like to renew my membership also ,thanks heaps

--- In Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com, "Les Harris" <leslieharris@...> wrote:
>
>
> As advised via a direct email to all members and by a posted message to
> the group, this group is being reorganized. Existing members are asked
> to renew their membership by completing and returning the
> re-registration form sent out with both emails and also available in the
> Files section. The reasons for the reorganization were sent out with
> the emails and is also available in the Files section.
>
> The origonal cut-off date was put at the end of September. Due to the
> abysmal response - 36 out of 200! - this date is being shortened to 31
> August. Anyone who has not responded by then will be removed from the
> membership list.
>
> Les Harris
>
> Syncro_T3_Australia
>

portmacpeter · 18 July 2011 06:21

Hello Les, Peter Coe here from Port Macquarie. I usually sign off as Peter from Port. Very keen to renew membership.

It’s great work that you do with this site and as a fairly new Syncro owner I have found it be most useful with the never ending maintenance, mods etc. that our machines need.

Ann and I have just got back from a trip to see my daughter in Toronto. We went via New York and after Toronto went out to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Saw a few bay window campers and few T3s but no Syncros. Photo below of a Westfalia parked on a property on the way to Niagara Falls. By the way, all vehicles are required to have their lights on at all times.

Cheers, Peter

danny5045 · 19 July 2011 07:02

Hello Les,

Please include me for another year.

Best Regards

Peter Delaney

From: syncroaustralia <leslieharris@optusnet.com.au>
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 4 July 2011 5:40 PM
Subject: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Membership Renewal