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Date: 2000-09-28 08:38:32
From "Steven M. Scotten "
Subject: Re: Consultants' mailing list

Thanks! Let's find a new name before we invite other folks though. 
Less confusion when I change the address.


--s

(Working from home and collecting a salary while setting up mailing 
lists for relaunching my consulting career...)

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:14:03 -0700 (PDT), Kurt Weiske wrote:

>
>Sounds like a great idea. More and more people I know are taking 
advantage
>of the current environment to strike out on their own. I'll ask and 
see if
>anyone's interesting in joining the list.
>
>--k
>
>(Installing Solaris at a Client's shop, reading mail while the 
install
>runs and getting paid too much $$$ to do so...)
>
>
>
>On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Steven M. Scotten wrote:
>
>> I've set up a mailing list for discussing issues related to 
>> independent consulting. Having had discussions with both Kurt and 
>> Erik yesterday and today along some very similar lines, I took 
the 
>> initiative and created the list.
>> 
>> Right now it's just Kurt, Erik, and myself.
>> 
>> Right now, it's got the unfortunate name of league-l@p90.net 
which I 
>> chose thinking of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 
>> but I'd already like to change the name and address of the list 
>> because it sounds like "legal" which isn't what I wanted
to get 
>> across. Name suggestions are welcomed before this list gets any 
>> bigger than it is right now.
>> 
>> I talked with Kurt hypothetically about creating a sort of loose 
>> association of consultants that can share resources at some level 
>> and call on one another to fill in gaps. While I'd like to 
>> experiment with pushing that idea forward, I see this list as 
being 
>> a discussion forum rather than a conduit for doing business. 
Maybe 
>> that could change, but lets think-tank this stuff out first.
>> 
>> And I apologize for subscribing the two of you to this list 
without 
>> asking first. It's just a resource, and nobody has to use it. I 
just 
>> want to get things rolling.
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>

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