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23000: Corbett -- The future of the list
>From Bob Corbett
Folks, I have run this Haiti forum since 1994, and enjoy it a great deal.
I also think it is an important and useful forum.
However, I'm getting older and want to do more traveling while I still
have the health that allows that. Running the list when I travel for any
length of time (when I'm "on the road" rather than settled as I am when I
go to Vienna) is very difficult.
Thus I am planning to either:
1. Close the list.
2. Make some major changes in what I post.
I don't need to do anything until early December at the earliest since I
don't see myself travelling before then. Even then, I'm not sure about
that period. However, I am for sure going to Ireland for a full month
around April 2005 and simply won't have e-mail access and, from my trip a
last year, I know that there are almost no cyber cafes in the rural west
where I like to visit. Because of that I limited that trip to just two
weeks though I wanted a longer one.
I just don't have TIME to defer travel any longer. I haven't any idea how
long my health with be what it is. STuff happens to us older folks.
Nothing I can do about that.
I have been assessing the options:
1. Just ending the list.
2. Turning the list over to some other person.
3. Making some major change in what I post ==
for example to post ONLY items actually
written by the poster and not published elsewhere
(eliminating all published news items) and
keeping:
-- discussion and opnions of list members
-- inquiry
-- announcements
would cut the number of post significantly.
I have been thinking about these and other options. I REQUEST and even
PLEAD with you to advise me. I will not post discussion of the list on
the list, but I do request to hear your advice on what diretion you would
suggest I take the list when the time comes for some significant change.
Thanks very much,
Bob Corbett