Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:40:41 -0700
Subject: Re: closing shop here


At 12:18 PM 11/30/2004 +1300, Danny Butt wrote:

>Kia ora,
>
>I'd also like to thank Radhika for her guardianship of the list! And of
>course to those of you who've generously shared information and insight.
>This was a particularly important space of learning for me in the mid-90s
>when I was not in the formal education system, and I have warm memories of
>some of the discussions here.
>
>Whatever happens with new lists, I agree that weblogs & rss seem to be a
>productive space of dialogue that does many things better than listservs
>(and some not quite so well e.g. announcements, information requests).  I
>hope there is much reciprocal linking among the spoon-poco diaspora in the
>blogosphere! A good incentive for me to get a proper weblog running.
>
>Best regards and safe movements to all,
>
>Danny


(radhika, would it be possible to turn off moderation for these last days 
to better facilitate transitions?)

with all due respect (as they'd say on "the sopranos") to bloggers i don't 
think blogs and lists work the same way. even a group blog is essentially a 
few-to-many interaction; a listserv works as a many-to-many interaction and 
allows a non-centralized form of communication that blogs do not. it is a 
different experience of community and one should not replace the other.

so, i hope a new listserv will be created. if it is the yahoo list so be it 
but personally if i am going to be on a listserv i would rather not have to 
go to a web-interface to read it and have to also suffer advertising and 
the vagaries of yahoo's connectivity issues (of which many of late). so my 
preference would be to migrate to a listserv like this one. many of us have 
access to such software through institutional affiliations and it would 
only be a matter of minutes to set a new list up. ideally, radhika or 
someone else could perform an email dump to seamlessly transition members over.

regards,

arnab chakladar


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