<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Paul McCloud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmc033@earthlink.net" target="_blank">pmc033@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Once we understand the investment necessary to start, then we can have a debate over GoogleGroup vs Listserv. </blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>The Google Group has already been running for a year, took zero investment to start, and has had zero expenses to run for this long. So what we're really talking about is starting up a <i>fifth</i> online group (original, my.ptg, gtech, g+, <new>), investing in it to get it started, weighing risk to benefit for how much you think it's going to cost, recruiting people from an already split audience to volunteer and help run it, administering fee collection and membership, and contract to an organization to run it.<br>
<br>And <b><i>then</i></b> convince people from the other four groups to move over to it, or at least pay money to use it at the same time as they're a member of one or more of the others.<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
In a way, since JD owns the GoogleGroup forum, he could pull the plug if he wanted to. Suppose he disappears? Then what becomes of it?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I presume, being a good natured person, John would hand over "ownership" to someone next in line. Hopefully by then he would've recruited others to take the "manager" role that Google provides, and someone from that group would be willing. But the handoff is would be relatively simple since there would be no question of tech infrastructure on which it relies. Now, if he is indeed a madman and were delete the group (is it possible to delete a public Google Group?) there would be nothing we could do about it except hope that someone with foresight was already saving the posts somewhere so it could be resurrected...<br>
<br></div>Jim<br><br></div></div></div>