Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00339)

John:

There are two things that you can do to protect a website. First, you could
find someone else to maintain a mirror of your site. (All the content is
copied to both sites, but both have different domain names and website
hosts.) Second, you could find one or two other people to co-own your site,
any of whom could continue to pay the bills and maintain the site should
something happen to you.

In either case, you have the greatest flexibility and freedom of action if
you do your work as an independent project, not under the official
sponsorship and control of any theosophical organization. This allows you to
concentrate on the work that you choose to do, and not have to deal with
politics, having to do something in a way you don't want or to do something
you'd rather not do, because someone "in charge" tells you that "this is
what we've decided" etc. 

Organizations do not take initiative; individuals do. Organizations may
provide funds and resources, but on the Internet, it costs very little to
have a website (unless there is high bandwidth requirements like with
streaming video). When a group provides funding, there are often strings
attached, a "do it our way," and other people perceive a project or site as
"belonging to that group," allowing their preconceptions about that group
blind them to looking at the site with an open mind. 

I'd see each independent effort as thriving when it free to grow and evolve
in its own direction, finding a useful function in the world and developing
its own personality. This is as opposed to an effort to mold a project to
the personality of any particular theosophical group. Individual, antonymous
workers are much more effective than more passive individuals that take
orders well but defer the initiative to others, perhaps a group or
committee, to tell them what to do and how to do it.

-- Eldon

-----Original Message-----
From: Compiler [mailto:compiler@wisdomworld.org] 
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 3:26 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World Thanks to Everyone who Commented on our Webpage

Hi Daniel (and everyone else with theosophical web sites),

Since this may be an important subject for each of us with theosophical
web sites to consider, I want to share these ideas with you folks just
in case all or some of you haven't yet considered the various
possibilities:

I've been thinking lately about what might or could happen to my
WisdomWorld.org web site if I died tomorrow and I hadn't already made
arrangements with THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY, the publisher of all the
articles on my site, or with some other theosophist or theosophical
organization. I could be wrong, but I was thinking about a worst case
scenario such as what would happen to it if all of a sudden my host
provider for the site stopped getting paid. Would this commercial
company after a few months of non-payment, and no one to call or write
to in order to let them know this, so that they could either continue to
pay the bills and keep it running, or pay the back bills and then
somehow technically make the arrangements to move all of the contents to
their own site and host provider, simply delete all of the contents and
shut it down so that no one had any more access to the articles and
ideas on it?

Because of this I recently called THE THEOSOPHY COMPANY and began a
discussion about how to go about making sure that all of the articles on
my WisdomWorld.org web site get to be owned, used, and presented to
humanity by them if I suddenly died.

Daniel, I just wanted to share this with you and others, as food for
thought and for whatever it may be worth, in order to make sure that
none of the very important contents of our various theosophical web
sites disappear off the face of the earth shortly after we die and move
on because we hadn't made any arrangements to make sure this doesn't
happen.

Fraternally,

John DeSantis
(Compiler)
http://www.wisdomworld.org
http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting.html
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/index.html
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"Daniel H. Caldwell" wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who commented on our webpage
> at:
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> http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/hpblinks.htm
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> or
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> http://www.theosophy.info/hpblinks.htm
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> To Morten:
>
> I will reply to some of your suggestions
> in the next day or so.
>
> Daniel
>
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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