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If I remember correctly Mrs. Do-as-you-would-be-done-by was a good water spirit. The story is about a chimney sweep's boy who is magically transported to Mrs. D's underwater realm (I think he dies first but I'm not sure). There was another character with a similar name but I've forgotten what it was.
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Oh, this board is now a democratcy? I thought is was a benevolent dictatorship, and Jackie was the dictator, oops, i mean administrator.
Since is it a private enterprize that Anu has been kind enough to share, its it his to do with as he choses. and he has chosen Jackie to administrate. Was it a good decision? i dunno.. time will tell (my opinion is yes, but hey, i've been wrong.)
Lets see how things go.. and lets not start second guessing her too soon. i think she has been here a long time, and has a good understanding of the rules. and of long standing behaviours, too.
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Our new administrator, Jackie, has the highest standards of anyone I know. And this board, which has been in existence for over two years, did too, enjoying healthy self-regulation with no spamming or threats of nuking such as you see in run-of-the-mill chat rooms --until recently, when it evidently became necessary to have an administrator.
Yeah, the Smithsonian article was great. Came out in December 2000, I think?
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Well what is private and what is public? there are plenty of private organizations that are function as public institutions.. i think of musuems, or gardens.. some of these quasi public places are free, and some require a paid admission.. some offer membership, and some are fully public.
the same goes for many of the plazas that exist in NYC, and other cities.. or the indoor covered sidewalks -- or malls.. are they public or private? and even public places.. like city schools aren't really open to the public.. you need to sign in, and have a reason to be there.
Yes, it is a public places.. but somewhere, there is a server, and a hard ware administrator, and electric bills, and back up tapes, and new copies of anti virus software, and the sortware that run the whole board. All of that is bought and paid for, and not by me, or you, or generally speaking by anyone here anyone! (but its nice to give donations, and Anu has asked.) so a good deal of what we see as a public places, is only public because of Anu's good will. and he has asked for donations.. he hasn't sold us stock! we aren't owners here, we are guests!
its easy to forget.. and to just think of it as fully public! Anu could pull the plug tomorrow, and this space could disappear!
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What you say is so true Helen. I think we all feel it is "our place" because of the many friends we have made here. But you are right, it is a private place to which we are allowed access. If I remember the article, it costs Anu some 500$ a month to keep it running. A good look at ourselves is important. Would you (that is the general you Helen not you specifically  ) give 500$ of your hard-earned money to keep something going for complete strangers. Every single month! I am very grateful to Anu for this place. And I think his choice of Jackie as administrator was a wise one. Time will prove his wisdom I am sure.
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$500 a month????? Does Anu get any help beyond our contributions? Hate to sound dense here, but I'm dense here. I mean, are there advertisers, supporters, grants, anything else that would help in additions to contributions?
Thanks for shedding some light or sending me to a link so I can understand how this place is run financially. I am forever grateful to Anu for giving us this board.
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well, he could run ads, but don't you just hate them?
and he has a .org domain name.. i don't know if that requires him to be non profit or not.. (ask me about how to decode the numbers that make up a URL address, about sub net masks, and how many users a network can support, that i can do, but rules about who gets to use .org? vs .com? vs .net? i dunno.)
Anu does have small little ads in a word a day, and in the newsletters. but having an almost ad free site is pretty nice.
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Hi, WW , Anu ran this out of his pocket for nearly two years, I guess. But now, do read your daily E-mails down to the bottom; there's often a request for donations. And each weekly AWADmail now has a corporate sponsor, thank goodness. Also a couple of weeks ago he started his spring membership campaign (sounds like NPR! ). If you didn't see that let me know privately and I'll dig it up for you.
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