Re: [epub] eGroups deleted some of my groups without telling me?!

["Geof F. Morris, Chief Editor, TOTK.com Sports" <gmorris@xxxxxxxx>]

At 12:00 PM 11/13/00, Ray wrote:
 >It "sounds" confusing, but once it is set up, it is SOOO easy.

	Heck, we're setting up a majordomo system to send out stuff.  The 
interfaces for it aren't bad [there's a few decent open-source Web-based 
ones out there to use] and if you get into the nuts and bolts of it, you 
can learn to make it do all sorts of fun things without paying for 
Lyris.  =)

	You don't even want to think about how cobbled together the old approach 
was.  =)

 >The benefit is that my list of subscribers isn't sitting on some 
webserver
 >"out there" for others to hack into, and I'm not paying someone else to 
do
 >it for me.  This is important because I make almost no money from  this 
...
 >yet.

	Also, there is something to be said for doing it yourself.  There is a lot 
of satisfaction to doing it.

 >As for who will survive and who will not... good observation, 
Geof.  !
 >I write because I'm a writer and I have to  write.   Even though my
 >audience is still small, I know it is read for the content (duuhhh...
 >there's no ads!).  If I were doing this just to be an e-publisher, riding 

 >the wave of ezine-for-money business, I would have quit long ago and 
found
 >another venue.  I do it for the writing and the interaction with readers
 >who write back.

	Indeed, it's important to examine why you're writing for, editing, or 
publishing an ezine.  If you're doing it for fun, it's really important to 
not let the business side of things get you down--because IT WILL!  If 
you're doing it for money, well, you might have fun with it, but it will be 
just like any other job.

	This is why I choose to writer for fun.  If you are successful, the money 
will follow.

	GFM

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