Re: [Paddlewise] SK is OK was Magazine recommendations

On Dec 3, 10:18, ralph diaz wrote:
} Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] SK is OK was Magazine recommendations
> Tomckayak_at_aol.com wrote:
> 
> Advertising is a mixed blessing.  While it helps sustain a publication,
> it can also hinder its articles and editorial content.  I can't tell you
> how often I have been approached to have ads (other than the free
> classifieds) placed in my newsletter.  While it would be a nice chunk of
> change, I just don't want to be in a position where saying something
> that reflects negatively on say Feathercraft (as an example) might lead
> to the company yanking ads that I might grew dependent on. 


Oddly enough, this issue came up in this environment, the sea kayaking
mailing lists.

Those of you who have been around for a while know that most of us
used to post to the Wave~Length mailing list.  Now Wave~Length is
primarily a low-budget magazine, very nice in its own way, and
I'm not really too sure if they're non-profit or not.  

Once upon a time, the Wave~Length mailing list was getting kicked out
of its original home and I volunteered to host it on our servers.
Eventually I ended up running the list for a while when the Wave~Length
people didn't have access to email or something - I was never too
clear on what the deal was there.  So I took over for a time.

Then came Tim Ingram, Sponson-man. Tim's fanaticism very nearly killed
any rational discussion on the list. For a time I came very close to
banning him from the list to protect us all, but when I tried to do
that, there was an issue from the Wave~Length magazine people about
Tim's advertising at the magazine.  I don't believe that's the only
reason why they didn't want to ban him from the mailing list (I think
they were also overly concerned with "censorship" issues), but it was
an issue that came up.  I resigned from managing the list as I didn't
want to deal with the complications of running someone else's mailing
list when they had other agendas as well.

So what happened next?  Jackie volunteered to start a new,
independent, semi-moderated list, called Paddlewise, where disruptions
like Tim Ingram could be controlled without worrying about other
external factors, like advertising.  Almost everyone switched from
Wave~Length to Paddlewise, and here we are today.

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