NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Bielanski]

Also, without knowing the scope of your organization, it may be possible
that the information you place in a members-only area could be construed as
data that affects business across the entire market you are trying to
support as an association/organization - down that road lies lawsuits for
anti-trust, monopolistic practices, etc.

Fun, huh?

So yes, based on the fact that you have no budget to properly address this
(and hey, if it was a good idea you'd be asking us how to accomplish it,
instead of what was asked), I'd steer clear of the nightmare looming
overhead...

~Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Snyder [mailto:csnyder at chxo.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:40 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] hairbrained?
> 
> 
> Hmmm, remain calm. Running an ISP is not for the feint of heart.
> 
> It's a great idea if your mission is to provide support for other 
> non-profits and birds-of-a-feather, because then you can 
> devote the time 
> and energy it will take to actually pull that off in a way 
> that doesn't 
> leave a sour taste in everyone's mouth.  In other words, your 
> boss will 
> have no trouble providing for all the staff required to form a 
> profitable service provider with 24 hour support.
> 
> If that's not in your mission statement, then it could still be a 
> middling idea if you know and trust your own ISP and want to form a 
> partnership with them, and they have the ability to cobrand 
> their services.
> 
> It's sounds like a lousy idea in any other case. Find good 
> hosting and 
> email, then spread the word to friends. But stay out of selling it 
> without a sober assesment of what's involved. (Read up on 
> griefers and 
> trolls and spammers if you need more cynicism.)
> 
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