Good reference well worth your time.
Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community. Sometimes an essay is timeless. That’s an apt description for Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John “Tex” Coate. I met Tex online when Fig-Tex (Cliff Figalo & Tex) ran the WeLL. Tex won the respect of everyone on the WeLL, even the over-the-top rowdies… [Internet Time Blog]