Ted-Milwaukee WWPotter19 "Sea Breeze"
Dennis W. Farrell wrote:
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> The operating cost of the Potter mailing list is $50/year. If I understand
> correctly, in the two previous years it was paid by the Potter Yachters and
> the East Coast Potter Association. This year it was paid by the Minnesota
> Potters. The first two clubs are dues-paying clubs, and I understand that
> the list fee was paid from their treasury. The Minnesota Potters are *not*
> a dues-paying group. The members simply volunteered to chip in and pay the
> cost. (I also had an offer from one individual to help pay the cost. I
> declined that offer, for reasons given below.) My personal thanks to all
> three groups
>
> The list on the Potter Yachters site shows a total of 8 web
> sites/clubs/groups [your choice of nomenclature]. There may be more not yet
> listed there. I make this point because I personally believe that a
> donation campaign among the general membership of the community is not a
> good way to raise the required funds. Use of a group identity provides a
> focus for collection, payment, accounting, and acknowledgment. It provides
> a way to rotate the donation responsibilities in an identifiable way. This
> way (hopefully) the usual list of donors doesn't get tapped every year.
>
> One group suggested that we transfer the list to one of the free,
> advertising-supported, mailing list sites. This is a possible option. I
> investigated several. They all have one or more of the following
> roblems -- there is no such thing as a free lunch:
> -- advertising is attached to each outgoing item
> -- the site owners claim copyright privileges over all material going
> through their sites
> -- many of the sites really push for maximum expansion of list
> membership to better their advertising revenues
>
> We are now paid through the end of next June, as I understand it. Past that
> point, the group will make a decision by providing or not providing the
> funding to continue. This specifically means that along about next May
> those groups which have not so far contributed will be asked to volunteer to
> pick up the tab. Hopefully one of those groups will volunteer to meet that
> responsibility.
>
> List Activity
> The list host, TSCNet.com, has handled about 23 postings, 1 digest, and 7
> administrative items each and every day in recent months. For this we pay
> less than $4.25/month.
>
> TSCNet.com
> My personal thanks to Al Reust and TSCNet.com for supporting this list.
>
> Best Regards to all -- dwf (Potter Mailing List maintainer)
>
> [note: I'm willing to discuss anything in this note with any/all interested
> parties. Please precede the "subject" of notes on this topic with "$$" so
> those who aren't interested can burn before reading]