>What happens if a person dies, and they are members of a gazillion lists >like I am. Now most of the lists wouldn't even notice if I fell of the >face of the earth ... But obviously people around here would notice.
Notifying them of your death is the least of the problems. What happens when you die and you are the only person who knows how to run an online business? This happened to a friend of mine recently. He was a doctor who ran a few websites, mailing lists, and an online cancer registry. When he died unexpectedly at the age of 55, nobody knew how to run the list or the registry. Nobody knows the passwords, how to access it, or even where in the world the data is located. Nobody can even change his website - where patients still fill out long forms requesting opinions from him - and wait - not knowing that there won't be any responses. The lists are running on auto-pilot - but with nobody administering them. People who had problems signing off are stuck. Nobody is around to help them. Nobody can be banned, nobody is stopping off-topic stuff. My point is that maybe we should all write down the important things like URLs, passwords, names, phone numbers and arrangements of advertisers, and how to do certain things, along with instructions of what to do when we die. Give it to the spouse and a friend. Maybe even those of us who work solo should form loose groups that help tie up loose ends and help the spouse run or sell the business in the event of a death.. I know that if I died right now, my wife would have no idea how to continue or sell my on-line business stuff. She doesn't even know my password to log onto my computer. Scary stuff.. but glad you bought it up. I will work on it:) Al Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
