RE: ADMIN: An Open Letter to the TECHWR-L Community

["Nagai, Paul" <pnagai -at- inovant -dot- com>]

> However, that does not solve the issue of recompense to the Rays 
> for setting the whole thing up and getting the 5000 members 
> interested in the first place.

Just an FYI: The list predates the Rays. It did well before them. And it did at least as well *during* their stewardship (content-wise, I don't know about subscriber numbers of what they would mean if I did know them). That says a lot more than it might sound like. If you don't know what I mean, google "Tragedy of the Commons" and "Explosive Growth of the Internet".


> This list is a great free resource for us at this time, but it seems
> likely we will need to think of avenues for $$ for the transition, no?

The trick will be to keep the $ behind the scenes. Move $ between TECHWR-L subscribers and TECHWR-L content, and TECHWR-L is dead.

By the way, this might be an interesting resource for the next while:
http://www.endoffree.com/about.asp

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