Ask and you shall receive. I'm removing some of the stall info, but here it
is
Matt Murray
mattm@optonline.net
----- Original Message -----
> I've looked all over for the post I made last year when I opened the
> nominations explaining about the DTN, its history and "rules" and I
> can't find it anywhere. If anyone saved it, could you send it to me
> and I'll repost it?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> pZ -- Paul
>From July 1999:
I am now accepting Driver to Nationals nominations! Nominations will be
open for 2 weeks, at which point I will start collecting votes.
DTN stands for "Driver to Nationals." A few years back, Matt Murray
suggested, half jokingly that we all chip in and send Phil Ethier to Kansas
for the Solo II Nationals. Phil had been a good doobie for a long time on
Team.Net and had never been to Nationals. We collected around $800, he
went, and drove Roger Johnson's Corvette.
Someone, I think Phil, came up with the idea of making this a yearly thing.
So next year, we collected mony and sent Mark Bradakis (man, hope I spelt
it correctly!), and the next year we did it again, send me, Paul Czarnecki,
and I drove Paul Brown's GS Knife.
Who qualifies?
To be DTN several things should be true:
1) The person must be a long time member of Team.Net and have been useful
on Team.Net.
2) The person must _never_ have competed in the Solo II Nationals and will
probably never go.
3) The person should have demonstrated, over the years, a willingness to
help out their region or regions (or club or whatever) at a local level.
How do we pick the DTN? Well, the previous year's DTN handles it, but t
always done in approximately the same way. This year I'm opening
nominations now, June 15th, I'll keep them open until July 1. I will then
publish the list of nominees, and open the voting. Voting will take 2
weeks. Then I'll publish the winner!
How do I nominate someone? Feel free to nominate someone on Team.Net,
extolling their virtues and lack of bad habits. That gets the disussions
going. But if you want it to count (and I'm going to have to be a real
stickler here, sorry, I just get too much email.) Nominations must be made
via email to XX@XXXXX.XXX (that's me) and NOT cc'd to Team.Net.
This way they'll get filtered into my right mailbox. You should then copy
the text of you nomination and send it off to Team.Net so that everyone can
discuss the nominee in excrutiating detail.
How do I vote? Well, don't until July 1, please. But you do it in the
same way. Email me at XX@XXXXX.XXX and NOT cc'd to Team.Net.
Same reasons apply. This will make it much easier to track things. (I
hope...)
How do I contribute?
Send ME a check or MO or whatever you have. My address is:
Paul Czarnecki
DTN
XXXXX
XXXXX, XX XXXXX
Please clearly mark the check DTN (I am currently fundraising for the
Boston to NY AIDS Bike Ride and am getting other checks in the mail. Those
checks should be made out to the Ride itself, but you never know. If you
want more info on that, check out my web site, or ask me. It is a good
cause I still have not yet met my goal) and make the check payable to Paul
Czarnecki.
Periodically, I will make the total public, along with a list of
contributors (in the order recieved), but I will not make the individual
amounts public. If you want to remain anonymous, please tell me on the
check.
Funds that are left over should be given to the next years recipient, but
in the last 3 years, I don't think that anyone has had any left over.
Thanks, and let the nominations begin!
pZ
--
Paul Czarnecki
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