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To: QwikSand who wrote (41024)	2/6/2001 9:59:22 PM
From: Lynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear QS:Rick on the QCOM thread pointed people to a posting on another thread that says SI is shutting down. Rick's URL was reading 10 postings at a time. Here in the one in that batch: Message 15306181 Notice how a new meeting site, should SI actually close down, has been set up at RB? Besides being stupid, RB and Yahoo! drive me crazy with all those spammers. It's also a pain in the neck not being able to read 10 postings at a time. None of those sites enable people to send PMs. "People have to pay and, for a variety of financial and psychological reasons, they'll only pay in a bull (or bubble) market." Probably a big problem here at SI right now is that most people do not pay. Some of us never have--we were grandfathered from the days when SI was free. Others became, "Free for life," members via invitation last summer and last month. Then there are the people who got SI memberships last year by opening accounts with Etrade. I don't know how SI can make money when it's a subscription site yet anyone can read it who wants, member or not, and there are legal ways to join and avoid ever paying. I am going to be very disappointed if SI goes down the tubes. Think someone like Schwab or the WSJ would be interested in SI? Lynn

To: QwikSand who wrote (41024)	2/7/2001 1:09:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

INSP is toast. Bob is gone... Does that mean that we can type "fuck" in our posts now? Hey, communities like this are the second killer app of the Internet and this one would be of great value to a larger interest (like CNBC). Why INSP didn't take this software, and their obvious success at community management and become community management services oriented, as companies with weaker software have been doing for years, I don't know (two different offshoots of The Well for instance are out there and meeting the payroll. Ten years ago, back in the late '80s/early '90s, I was a part of community building/management and networked community (DOS BBS) software development. I'm proud to have built an amateur network from 5 BBSs to close to 1,500 in about 18 months, which became at the time second in size (distantly) to Fidonet, directly before I abruptly disappeared into the redwoods (AD/HD) for 3 years with a blonde, Nurse/Deadhead with nearly perfect breasts ...whom I later married. <g> Prior to that (pre 1990), I was part of a small community of single parents, first on Prodigy and later on GEnie after Prodigy threw us and a couple other conspirator groups off for abusing the mail system, which wasn't intended for such creative use (which didn't fit P's business plan. In the aggregate of my experience with virtual community (to say nothing of flame wars <g>) it's my belief that WWW virtual community isn't going to be going down the .com tubes like some eCard IPO. We won't be shrugging our shoulders at some no longer in service html message from SI and instead zoning into Bloomberg or Nickelodian in it's place. Clearly though, we, and this software are in need of a new home apart from these bozos. We need new bozos! <g> -JCJ