Re: shutting down

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

Thank you Ted.  Could some of the professional societies involved be
sponsors?  If you can tell me how much money is involved, I will raise the
question with the ANS Board.  If enough can't be raised by sponsorpship,
would a small membership fee be out of the question?

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted de Castro <tdc@xrayted.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: shutting down


>I have sent an offer to Melissa to take over RADSAFE.  It would continue
>to be a free service BUT will need to establish some sort of revenue to
>cover ISP costs.  Therefore it would involve sponsorship and some way to
>make those sponsors visible.
>
>Right now the thoughts are to allow them ads and links on the web site
>and MAYBE 1, and only 1, list email per month listing who the sponsors
>are.
>
>This would be relatively low exposure for them - but also we would be
>asking very little in the way of sponsorship.
>
>We could also have a side list where people could go to when looking for
>products or services and where sponsors could freely participate.
>Anyone NOT subscribed to that ADDITIONAL service would NOT see any of
>that traffic.
>
>These are our thoughts and others would be welcome - as well as
>criticisms of these ideas.
>
>The fellow with the ISP is willing to take it for a year - and so long
>as he can meet costs - it will continue.
>
>I think we can keep things looking almost the same as they are now.
>Melissa had already chosen a successor moderator and this would of
>course be honored as a co-moderator.
>
>There will NOT be splash ads attached to each and every email - I expect
>the ASCII format to remain.  The only attached "ad" one might see would
>be one to encourage visiting the site and checking out the vendor links.
>
>This is not unlike the vendor sponsorship at the annual and mid year
>meetings - and thus I assume would be acceptable.
>
>Listserver services can also me made available to HPS specialties and
>maybe other functions - like ANSI writing groups.  We will work this out
>as we go along - and once again - WITHOUT adding to the traffic of
>RADSAFE as we now know it.
>
>
>M Woo wrote:
>>
>> Greetings everyone -
>>
>> I have been maintaining the machine on which RADSAFE runs for more than
>> a year since I left the field of radiation safety.  There have been
>> three offers to transfer the list to other campuses, but none were
>> successful.
>>
>> Managing the machine on which the list runs has easily been a conflict
>> of commitment with my current job.  Additionally, the network
>> administrator who has graciously allowed me to continue to co-locate the
>> server in the ehs.uiuc.edu subdomain will be leaving his current
>> position; there is an expectation that his successor will not be so
>> generous.
>>
>> Therefore, I will be shutting down RADSAFE and the machine on which it
>> is located sometime on Friday, 2 March 2001.
>>
>> An offer has been made to transfer the list to eGroups.  However, the
>> individual who has offered to take over is concerned that although
>> eGroups will archive messages from the date the list is transferred,
>> they cannot save the old list archives.  Therefore, if a site can be
>> located that can host both the list as well as the old list archives, it
>> would be considered preferable.  A second, less attractive, alternative
>> would be to transfer to the list to eGroups, yet host the old list
>> archives at another site.  If you feel you can meet either of the above
>> objectives, please e-mail me at m-woo@uiuc.edu.
>>
>> I wish to thank everyone for the last several years of RADSAFE.  The
>> list would never have continued to exist this long without you.
>>
>> Melissa
>>
>> --
>> Melissa Woo, Research Programmer <mailto:m-woo@uiuc.edu>
>> UIUC CCSO Workstation Services Group - Unix Support
>> 1120 DCL, MC-256, 1304 W Springfield, Urbana, IL 61801
>> phone 1.217.244.9860 <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-woo/>
>>
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