As a lurker for the past while I will go with the majority!

---- Michael Blair  wrote: 
> > In addition to thanking Chris for everything he has done for the List,  
> > I'd
> > like to propose a warm vote of thanks to Cornell Law, and the
> > administrators who have been kind enough to provide a safe secure 
> > physical
> > home for the list.
> 
> Well said.  I've just been watching the posts here since I haven't much 
> knowledge
> about such things.  But maybe I know a bit more than I thought.
> 
> First, the feel of the list is really about the members and how we 
> interact,
> what we want to see here.  It can take a bit of moderating, and some 
> good and
> sensible rules (like no flaming, no politics, no religion stuff) -- 
> pretty much
> what I see here on the porch.
> 
> How to set it all up, how much financing is needed, I don't know.  But I 
> do know
> that there is nothing about yahoo groups that would keep the flow of 
> things going
> just like it has here.  I belong to several, and the only difference 
> among them
> is who is on them and how they are moderated.
> 
> I don't think we would really notice a change if we took Old Tools to 
> Yahoo.
> OK, there's the new Social Media vocabulary, which often nauseates me.  
> But
> for the most part all you see is emails and responses, just like we do 
> here.
> 
> If it takes some kind of Galoot financing ...  Well, it will be the 
> cheapest
> porch we've ever lived on.  It's too good, and there's too much 
> friendship
> here to let it slide.  And Scott G won't be worth a Galoot hoot without 
> us.
> 
> Mike in Sacto
> 
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