Forum access and 2006 membership renewals

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:43 am

One of the perks of THSCC membership is access to the forums. Only THSCC members and a few special cases (Track program staff who may not be THSCC members, etc.) should have access to the forum.

So, it is the time of the year (actually doing this late) in which we compare the membership list against the forum membership. Those who have not renewed for 2006 will have their forum account deactivated. This also includes access to the online Heel and Toe as the password used to access that is posted here on the forum and will change after we clean up the forum membership for 2006.

I have compared the list of active forum user accounts against the membership list that Bowie maintains. The list below is of those who are going to be loosing their forum access. The list is big and it contains a number of forum regulars and autocross regulars! I will be giving everyone about a week to review the list and then I will be deactivating accounts. If you do end up renewing after the account has been deactivated, I can reactivate your forum account. Deactivating an account is not the same as deleting it. Post history, etc. will still exist while an account is deactivated.

If you know that you have just forgotten to renew for 2006, then use the form from the main THSCC web site…

http://www.thscc.com/general/forms/mem_app.pdf

The form contains information on both how to join initially as well as how to renew your membership.

If you feel you already have renewed for 2006 AND you are on the list below, please contact Bowie Gray at memberships@thscc.com to resolve your membership status. For forum access issues, please contact the Forum Admin Staff at forums@thscc.com

The list...

Matt Anderson
Rich Anderson
Mark Antony
Jon Azevedo
MarkBabbitt
Chris Baker
Donnie Barnes
AdamBarr
Mark Beech
Rob Bergstrom
Luke Belverd
CHUCKBERTOG
enricobigoni
Geoff Bishel
daniel bishop
KurtBishop
TomBishop
Dave Blum
Tom Bohlmann
AdamBreakey
Steven Bremer
dennis briddell
Jason Bridges
Fred Brown
DenisBudniewski
Daniel Cameron
lloydcayes
weiyanchan
Alan Chapman
scottchastain
Joe Cline
Steve Coleman
Cash Davidson
Crash Davis
Marc Davis
bendawson
pete deichler
JordanDenhoed
jim diguiseppi
joedobner
Bob Dow
davedunn
Dan Ecclestone
Leslie Elliott
JonathanEvans
anthony.faranda
Ashraf Farrag
amyfeistel
GretaFerkel
Francisco Ferreira
don forrester
Chuck Frank
Donna Frank
Dave Frankel
ScottGallimore
chrisgarrett
jeremy gast
Richard Gates
Shawna Geyer
Travis Grabb
Mark Grabski
Matt Graham
bill gratton
Bowie Gray Jr
AndersGreen
Andy Greene
Charlie Guthrie
Pete Guthrie / pete allen guthrie (Duplicate)
Lee Hagan
Jack Hall
Banks Haque
Lenzie Harcum
Kevin Hassell
John Helgesen
david helwig
Patrick Henry
Joel Heywood
John Hines
Scott Holthausen
mark hughes / mark a Hughes (Duplicate)
Brian.Iriks
James Jack / JamesJack (Duplicate)
Doug Jackson
Mike Johnson
gerichkadala
Kenny Keel
nelsonkick
John King
TimKingsbury
JakeKitchener
ChuckKnight
billkoff
gary kole
Dan Larson
Danny Levenson
kevinley
Adam Ligon
chris long
RobLupella
BretLuter
Michael Mansour
erniemanzella
Brian Marks
BillMartin
george mcadams
Jon McBride
Marvin McBride
MattMcBride
Robert McClaskey
AdamMenges
SeanMinehart
Mark Musser / markmusser (Duplicate)
Scott Nettleship
TedNguyen
Eric Nordgren
Jordan Normark
Bob Nyberg
ColinOConnell
Jason Ogle
MikeOrth
Jamie Palmer
marcpearce
TimPeele
Dave Phillips / David Phillips (Duplicate?)
MikePickett
Steve Pierce
DavePrichard
Jeremy_Prince
RaviRaman
Richard Ray
ScottRich
treyrivers
ClayRouse
randy rutkowske
Chris Schimmel
seanscott
EduardoXavierSegovia
Ken Shiring
Donald Smith
SeanSmith
JeffSnavely
Marcus Spade
Chip Stabler
johnstauber
CocoStrayer
David Teague
Bob Thomas
Matthew_Thomson
paul tillery
davidurriola
John Ventevogel
Mark Vogler
Joseph Volk
Chris Walker
Phil Wehman
Patrick Wellenius
BrianWhalen
Philip Whaley
Mark Whight
tedwilder
Jim Williams
Emmett Willis
Mike Winn
Charles Wolthusen
stephen woolard
Arun Wright
Gary Yates
KentYoung
tomyoungbar
JoeZimmerlin

Marty Howard · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:55 pm

This is the list of names to be de-activated or the list of current members?

If it's this list of accounts to be de-activated then:

Quote:

Bowie Gray Jr

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:10 pm

Marty Howard wrote:

This is the list of names to be de-activated or the list of current members?

This is the list of those to be deactivated. You DONT want to be on this list. Yes, there are some interesting names on the list. It is easy to forget to renew.

Chuck Frank · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:15 pm

In the mail.

Brad Mackey · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:58 pm

Let's see, that's about 170 "members", give or take, times $25 dues for 2006 = $4,000+ coming in soon! Or, a large jump in AutoX and HPDE non-member entry fees.

We can throw a hell of a party on that kinda jack!!

Matthew_Thomson · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:04 pm

well that sucks.. i guess moving has its disadvantages..

Diane Hall · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:18 pm

Matt,

You just have to keep your membership current.

Diane (who lives in NH)

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:26 pm

I sure wish we could renew online. Paypal fees be damned! I want online renewal!

--Donnie

steve remchak · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:31 pm

Donnie Barnes wrote:

I sure wish we could renew online. Paypal fees be damned! I want online renewal!

--Donnie

here here. i say we put it to a vote.

David Teague · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:36 pm

Mine went in the mail today.

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:36 pm

Brad Mackey wrote:

Let's see, that's about 170 "members", give or take, times $25 dues for 2006 = $4,000+ coming in soon! Or, a large jump in AutoX and HPDE non-member entry fees.

We can throw a hell of a party on that kinda jack!!

Sounds to me like Bowie is going on a great ski trip this year!!!!!

RobLupella · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:48 pm

I'll pay up I promise

BretLuter · **Posted:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:02 am

WOW, that is a long list- with alot of (irr)regulars names on there.

I would also like to have online renewal- I think it would save alot of time and hassle for everyone involved. I'll again volunteer to keep track of the Paypal account, or help with it, manage it, or whatever.

I'd pay $1 or so extra to renew online vs. having to mail it (39 cent stamp, envelope, etc).

Let's face it, we're almost 5 months into the year, that is a pretty big list of folks who have not paid their dues yet. Even at just 2-3% interest, that's alot of $$ the club is missing out on. If we offerred online payments, and made a big push to get everyone renewed and paid by Jan 15th or 30th, I think we'd be better off.

Let's make it so. :wink:

Bret

EDIT: Just re-read Richard's post, and that list is folks who have not renewed who are about to lose forum access, so I wonder how many others (without forum access) are intending to renew, but haven't gotten around to it yet- the list just gets bigger!!!!

Emmie Fisher · **Posted:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:26 am

PayPal for renewals is not as simple as PayPal for an event. Carl has thought some about what needs to happen (programmatically), but just hasn't had time to mess with it. Again, if you're a programmer (not someone who plays one on TV--that's me) who is willing to do some programming work on this project, contact Carl (start with an email to webmaster@thscc.com). Bowie has no prob going the PayPal route, but there are identification & payment verification issues that have to be addressed first. I calced the required fees a while back; more than $1, I think, but not more than most folks would be willing to pay for the convenience.

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:06 am

Emmie Fisher wrote:

...if you're a programmer... ...but there are identification & payment verification issues that have to be addressed first...

Those are the key things. ME, Carl, myself and a few others know that we have wanted to somehow build a better system that ties everything together. We have club membership, forum membership, event registration and event PayPal payment and all of these currently do not use a common "ID" to tie people together. When you become a club member, you get an ID. But this ID is not used elsewhere (yet). Ideally we can tie it all together. Right now it is a lot of manual data entry and manual name matching which is a pain.

Lets say my club membership is via "Richard Casto". I register for events as "Richard (Honda Boy) Casto". My PayPal event fee (I think) uses that same "name" to tie me to who registered. My forum name might be something like "RichCasto". All these names are slightly different, but valid under the current system. Because of this, it is impossible to link these up in an automated way reliably without using a unique ID throughout.

So we have ideas on how to make this work. What we lack is the bodies to do the programming work. This project starts/stops every six months or so due to waning interest.

If this ends up turning into a big discussion about PayPal renewals (I am sure we all would love an automated method to renew), I can break these posts of into another thread as this really was just an announcement thread.

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