Dear Brian, Your reappearance here, long after the list became functionally useless because new discussants couldn't succeed in joining, reminds me of my great-grandfather.
He went off to fight for the Union in the American civil war, leaving behind a general store, a wife, and children. They didn't hear from him for years. None of those touching letters that have been published recently were his. The war ended; nothing was heard. Eventually the statutory limit passed; his wife had him declared dead, and remarried. Then he showed up, surprised that things were not just as he'd left them. His wife had a thing to two to say to him, then gave him a "grubstake" and sent him off. He went to Arkansas, married again, and became my great-grandfather. But he did not get his old life back. I don't know whether there is any life left in this list. It's worth, I think, finding out. The ONLY reason the yahoo openhealth list exists is because this one wasn't accepting new people. Trademarkianism has nothing to do with it. If you want there to be life in this list, you might start by simply inviting everyone on the yahoo list back to this one. Having a fight, even a desultory diplomatic one, about the use the the trademark is probably not the most effective way to begin this. Recognizing that the yahoo list is merely a functioning substitute for the real thing, and ensuring the continuation of the discussion, free of ads and yahoo nonsense, would, in my own view, be welcome. Best wishes, Dan Johnson On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 04:01 +0100, Brian Bray wrote: > Tim Churches a écrit : > > Hmmm, does Minoru plan to assert its trade mark against the Openhealth > > list on Yahoo (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ )? > > > I'm not expecting that I'll have to. It depends on the the other list > and my decisions over the next few weeks. > > The way I see it, there are two possibilities for the motivations of the > creators of the other list: > > 1) It really is a question of the technical capabilities of the list and > the lack of support. > > In this case, the folks running the yahoo list will have no problem > changing the name to avoid confusion. The two lists will either merge at > some point or specialize to meet different needs of the community. The > yahoo list has critical mass, so a name change is unlikely to cause its > members to leave.....
