Date:         Tue, 20 May 2008 10:21:35 -0400
Reply-To:     Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
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From:         Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ADMINISTRIVIA - Reply from AT&T/BellSouth Part I
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"Jeff Lincoln" <magikvw@GMAIL.COM> said:

> The other thing that comes to mind is that Ron legally owns Vanagon.com and
> the list but you say that the list members paid for it. If Ron is no longer
> involved how would one go about having ownership of the domain name and list
> moved to someone else?

How much are people wedded to the "vanagon.com" domain?  One option that
would be technically painless would be to start a new domain, dump the
current subscriber list into some more modern list management system
such as Mailman, and not look back.

This is pretty much what happened with the Mercedes-oriented mail lists
at mbz.org -- folks got tired of endless technical problems, and finally
another list member founded his own list and everyone moved.

The vanagon.com name is cool, I admit, but is it worth these headaches?

Allan
--
1991 Vanagon GL