How long? More on megasites....

A few postings ago I had some comments on the problems of keeping up-to-date the great megasites like my own Resource Pages for Biblical Studies (RPBS), NTGateway, and others.
Mark Goodacre, the owner of NTGateway, gave a response (read here), to which I responded again.
Last night, James Davila, the keeper of PaleoJudaica, also joined the debate (read here), and I would like to offer some further comments, not at least proffered by his posting.
I cannot quote his posting in full, just some of the sections I want especially to focus on.
Jim wrote:
"This is certainly a worthwhile conversation to have and to keep having. My thoughts:
By sponsors do you mean someone to give us web space? Probably one or more academic institution could supply that. Or if we want to have separate space, one can get quite a bit very cheaply. I'm not sure what else we would need sponsors for."
For my part, by 'sponsors', I do not primarily think about someone providing webspace. Academic institutions may be willing to offer space; for my part I have moved my site from the webserver of my institution to a commercial one, and I am paying for it myself (don't tell my wife..). But that's a personal choice, due to the fact that I also wanted to have some pages of personal and family interest on that site.
What I am thinking of is the fact that my institution does not pay me for surfing the Internet, and for all the other work involved in building and keeping websites. By 'sponsors' I meant someone who could raise money so a megasite could be run by (part-time) persons paid to do just that; run the site. I don't know exactly how this is done with the ETANA site, but sponsors were mentioned on that site.

Furthermore, to evade a mistake that may be inherent in Jim's response; I am NOT thinking about the various Weblogs out there, but megasites of links like RPBS and NTGateway. I enjoy both Jim's and Mark's weblogging, and theirs are the direct inspiration of my own. (There are a lot of rambling blogs out there, but the two mentioned above are scholarly and to the point, as is also the one by Stephen Carlson, and some others).
The focus of my discussion is how to run the megasites. I for my part try to gather links about the New Testament, that is all the writings of the NT, links concerning the social world of the New Testament, methods, etc etc,- and not to forget: Philo. But to be honest, I don't think it is possible for one person to keep such a comprehensive site updated on a sparetime hobby basis. Even Mark admits that he gets too little sleep, too little research done (probably an overstatement....:-), and he does not manage to keep up with all the articles now published on the Internet.
Furthermore, Jim wrote:
" True, it would potentially be useful to have a megasite of links to all our manifold sites and blogs etc. But various people, Torrey included, maintain such things. I'm not sure what the benefit would be to adding another."
I have partly commented on this; I think one of the benefits would be that such a site would be more efective, more comprehensive, and more often updated. I try to imagine a site, in which several persons are involved, having their own fields of research to cover, fields in which they would be specialists in. As it is now, both Mark and I try to include the Gospel of John, but then we have the site of Felix Just being much more comprehensive, and others are focusing on other sections of the NT (not to speak of the Old testament/Hebrew Writings, pseudepigrapha etc ).
Well, I think I have made my point clear; I do enjoy the availability of research on the Internet; being a profesor at a minor institution, in a small town of 6000 people, the internet opened up the world in the early nineties that has been wonderfully profitable for my self and for my research. I started my RPBS as a hobby for myself, then placed it on a server, and it soon got visitors.
But I see the need for thinking about the future, someone has to do that, and I welcome further comments to this thread started here.
Hence I also second this comment of Jim:
"As for Mark's idea of involving the SBL, I would need to hear more about exactly how. It would be fine for us all to get together over beers at the meetings and discuss what we're doing and what we want to do. I suppose we could consider starting a group on Internet matters and biblical studies, although it would have to be clearly differentiated from CARG, which might not be easy. Or, as Torrey suggests, we could see about arranging a CARG session (or sessions) on the subject. "
Maybe this little exchange of opinions could go on a little more, and then we could meet at SBL in San Antonio to share further reflections. That would be wonderful. (though I would prefer wine rather than beer......:-)