[Publib] Issues with the PUBLIB mailing list

[Robert Balliot]

9000 self-renewing perpetual sales leads discussing the needs and problems
of their
institutions representing hundreds of millions of dollars in buying power.

I think most vendors would pay for that sort of access and bragging rights
to host.


R. Balliot
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com


On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Sue Kamm <suekamm at mindspring.com> wrote:

> An important part of what we may want from PUBLIB is whether
> WebJunction/OCLC can supply it and at what cost.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Karen Schneider <kgschneider at gmail.com>
> >Sent: Jun 28, 2009 1:52 PM
> >To: Robert Balliot <rballiot at gmail.com>
> >Cc: publib at webjunction.org
> >Subject: Re: [Publib] Issues with the PUBLIB mailing list
> >
> >On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert Balliot<rballiot at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Karen,
> >>
> >> It is certainly beneficial to OCLC to host the list and have access to
> all
> >> of the
> >> subscribers email addresses and content.  Offering a server space to
> handle
> >> the listserve is not big money, nor is it particularly complicated. It
> is
> >> simply
> >> partitioned space.
> >
> >
> >This discussion isn't about OCLC -- it's about PUBLIB, and what we as
> >a community want for it. The fact (and it *is* a fact) is that running
> >a mailing list, particularly a mailing list with a large membership
> >and a huge archive, is about far more than "simply partitioned space."
> >I manage and co-administrate several other mailing lists on other
> >servers, from small personal lists to larger lists for agencies.  If
> >it were trivial to keep our mailing list optimized, we wouldn't be
> >having this conversation.
> >
> >I affirm Joe Schallan's observation that we seem to have a chronic
> >subscription-related problem, and as noted in my earlier post, I add
> >that we as a group might well want to discuss PUBLIB's future (and not
> >in terms of what our host is or is not doing for us, but in terms of
> >what we want and how we want to meet those needs).
> >
> >Karen / PUBLIB
> >
> >
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>
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