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Originally Posted by 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. |
Well the lawyer is wrong. The forum members agreed to give the email addresses to the forum. It's an entity. All you would have to do is give notice that ownership of the forum is changing and give them a period of time to react to that. In that way it's an opt-out instead of an opt-in.