Originally from: Pat Gardiner
                        

Author wrote:
Sue,
On the basis that you and I are not seized with this idea in
isolation, it must be up to Mary to consider if this is a sensible way
forward. Money, for all of us is the grease for living but if the effort to
achieve the goal is too much, no amount of money will help. I also suggest
that IF this is agreed, the best method of payment is a standing order for a
monthly amount to make up an annual figure.
Peter
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Subject: Re: [farmtalking] RE: warmwell

Hi Peter,

I second that. We cant help time wise – but would certainly be more than
happy to make a monthly / annual subscription for access to the font of

knowledge

that is warmwell – that holds us all together and supplies us all with so

much

information and archive material that we all rely on and use so regularly

Sue

Many I respectfully suggest that this might be counterproductive. Mary opened this thread by asking whether anyone was reading Warmwell. We all told her that we were.

A subscription only service would set the Champagne corks popping in Maff-Defra and the RCVS. Any form of subscription would reduce the readers by an enormous percentage. Very soon the only readers would be the veterinary Establishment and those who want the facts hidden and only available to approved insiders.

Sound familiar?

It is also a variation of "promote the shopsteward to foreman."

The strain of keeping Warmwell open, available, visibly independant and updated is great, I'm sure, but I genuinely think the end is now in sight.

Regards
Pat Gardiner