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

Subject: Re: ADMIN: An Open Letter to the TECHWR-L Community
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 06:30:03 -0600


While some have focused on "stewardship", building and running the list is a business. The Rays haven't made it complicated. Go out an try to buy any business and see if the discussion does not involve costs, "tools", etc. TECHWR-L on the surface looked like a magnanimous gift by the Rays to the Technical Writing community, but behind the scenes it was a real business with all the costs and problems of a real business. If it wasn't run like one, it would have died long ago.

Greg Holmes wrote:

By choosing to require this to be a "business proposition",
the Rays may have *made* it something complicated, to
involve lots of discussion, ultimately, about costs, "tools",
etc.


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