[Erin Pavlina]

I don't think it's wise to give the forums to anyone else to own or administrate simply from a legal standpoint. That's handing over thousands of email addresses to someone who was not the person with whom the members originally agreed to give their addresses. Know what I mean?

When I sold my business, VegFamily.com, I had forums. And my lawyers told me I couldn't simply transfer ownership to another owner. Every member of the forums had to re-sign their forum agreement under the new owner. She lost a lot of people but most came back.