Re: (ET) elec-trak.org site

["Max Hall" <maxo iname com>]

It wouldn't cost diddly! At least two of us have offered to host.

Did the contributor who mentioned Copyleft actually slurp elec-trak.org?
It'd be a shame to have lost all of the site's webmaster's great work for
good.

-Maxo


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen & Carol Welch" <welches paonline com>
To: <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: (ET) elec-trak.org site


> The Elec-Trak.org site had been up and running until just a couple of 
> days
> ago (I often browsed the classifieds there).  As others have noted it
> appears to have unexpectedly vanished.
>
> The site has been useful to me, and others I am sure.  If there is
interest
> in a resurrection, and if money is an issue, I could recommend the model
> that was adopted by another "special interest" site I frequent.  People
were
> asked to join and send a few bucks to have a membership (something like
> $12/yr) to defray costs.  So far this method seems to be working (you can
> visit it at http://www.trailmanorowners.com/)  Obviously, one needs
someone
> with webmaster skills to run the site.  Maybe this discussion list could
> move to a "board" model like the above site.
>
> I don't know - except that without these sources of support, unique and
> non-factory-supported machines like the ET will be much harder for people
to
> keep running.  Also it will be more difficult to bring in "new blood" to
the
> active ownership group.
>
> I really don't have any idea how many are on this list, and what the
> critical mass would need to be to support a site, but thought I'd at 
> least
> throw this out there.
>
> Steve
>
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