[Rhodes22-list] I got a dilemma people

[stan]

I am sure you will come up the best way to handle this - the way our
literature covers it:

Seaward Distributors,  a general boats company

stan/gbi

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From: "Gardner, Douglas (LNG-DAY)" <douglas.gardner at lexisnexis.com>
To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:45 AM
Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] I got a dilemma people


> I'd like to play devil's advocate, for a second...
>
> First, regarding the website:
> I think it may be a bit confusing for people who don't know the history to
> understand the relationship between a Rhodes website (granted, primarily a
> R22 site) and a Seaward site.  My recommendation is to have 2 different
> domain names (one for each site) and to provide links to each.  I think
you
> could re-create the basic navigation scheme for the Seaward26.org site
from
> Rhodes22.org, with just a few modifications to allow linking to the other
> from the global navigation.
>
> Really very little extra work to do it that way, and it should be much
> easier to understand.  OK, so there will be twice the cost for the domain
> name.  We should work that out so that MJM isn't eating that cost as well
as
> the cost of hosting.
>
> Regarding the list:
> Could the change be accommodated by doing nothing?  Perhaps just changing
> the charter?  It seems to me that we've had people changing boats before
and
> staying on the list.  Nobody yells at Rik about it.  Of course, Rik
doesn't
> ask questions much anymore.  Doesn't mean he couldn't, though.  I can see
> the logic more on this one, though.  But maybe we could wait to see if it
is
> an issue before a radical change.  We still have the occasional R19 and
> other Rhodes owner on the list, too.  How do we continue to welcome them?
>
> Just a couple of thoughts.
>
> --Doug
>
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