For me personally, if it were to come down to some sort of an annual fee to
be a member, I would be willing to participate in order to keep things
going.  The thing I like about a mailing list like this is that, you don't
get a lot of extraneous chatter with which you have no interest.  On most
web based or social media sites, you certainly can have forums, but you
also get a lot of stuff you didn't want.  They are also easily targeted by
spammers and the like.  My 2 cents worth is that I like this format and
would be willing to pay to keep it that way.

Doc


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Gary Katsanis 
wrote:

> Perhaps I am speaking for myself, and the good Lord knows I don't have a
> lot of dollars looking to spend themselves on something.  That said, I
> think it's reasonable for the Porch to offer some financial support in
> consideration of the ongoing maintenance of the mailing list.
>
> Am I alone in this?
>
> Gary Katsanis
> Albion NY, USA
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Re: [OldTools] The future of OldTools
> Date:   Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:01:16 -0900
> From:   Christopher Swingley 
> To:     Darren Addy 
> CC:     OldTools List 
>
>
>
> Darren, GGs
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:12 AM, CheekyGeek  wrote:
>
>> I don't want to put words in Christopher's mouth, but I read his original
>> post as saying that regardless of whether or not he puts the listserv on
>> swingleydev.com right now, "we will be looking for a long term home". I
>> think that what Chris is saying is that swingleydev.com would be a
>> stopgap
>> solution, not the end all solution.
>>
>
> Thanks.  Actually, I'm not opposed to being the long term maintainer
> of the List on my server, but never having managed a list this large
> (I've managed Mailman lists with around 50 users in the past), I
> wanted to leave myself a little wiggle room should it turn out to be
> much more than I was expecting.  So I think I'd characterize my server
> as a probable long-term home, but certainly a stopgap, should it turn
> out to be too much for me to handle.
>
> I'm also not opposed to using a Mailman hosting service like one of
> the ones you found, but I think that'd be a backup solution to having
> an interested member (like me) host it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
> --
> Christopher Swingley
> Fairbanks, Alaska
> http://swingleydev.com/
> cswingle@s...
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