[pbs] Modest Proposal and name change

Hannon othonna at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 04:29:45 EST 2008


What Bob says here makes good sense. Do the purported benefits of a name
change outweigh the known and unknown downsides?
Dylan Hannon

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Bob Rutemoeller <brutem at mcn.org> wrote:

> Changing the name of the group is not very modest in terms of the load of
> work it would create.
>
> You would need to change your name with the IRS, bank accounts, and most of
> all with your list and wiki provider.
>
> Your most valuable archives and wiki information and links to it may well
> be lost for future searches.
> An awful lot of effort to make these thousands of changes would mean less
> time for work on new information and expanding the current images and
> cultural information resources.
> You don't have any "staff" to do this, just a very few very dedicated
> volunteers.
>
> Please think about this carefully. I particularly like Jane's sensible
> definition of "Pacific".
>
>
> Bob Rutemoeller
> brutem at mcn.org
>
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