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@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@mcn.org > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >