Re: [sc-users] Future of the lists

[sdiy-mz01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Scott,
thanks a lot for maintaining this list for such a long time and keeping the quality up!

For me is ‘being offline’ still a thing. 
Consequently I have some 90.000 Mails on my HDD, beginning in 2009.
Because I’m not a ‘full-time’ or ‘hardcore’ SC user I need to refresh my memory how things work every now and then.
So I’m happy to refer to my local archive, esp. when being without Internet access.

I’m subscribed to scsynth.org in summery mode and didn’t visit this site for many months.
Just now I realised the last digest mail is from Feb 8 this year. No idea why, so I’ve to investigate.
This leaves my feeling a bit more uncomfortable about online fora with a mailing interface.

Also I experienced many mailing lists wandering off or being diminished by the emergence of largely redundant facebook groups.
Something I disagree with, as there is no maintained archive or an elaborate and reliable search function or such.
I realise there’s also a fb group for SC, I think I posted there once or twice, but I lost interest for above reasons.

Of course this is just my 2c and time goes on and changes are inevitable at some point.
Thanks again, Michael.

> On 19.05.2021, at 18:09, i@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> So I think the options are as follows:
> 
> 1. Move the lists to another host. JISCmail may be a possibility.
> 2. Continue the lists and accept a gap in the archive, and hope that the new hosting solution here will come sooner rather than later.
> 3. Wind up the lists after a quarter of a century, move all discussion to other fora (e.g. scsynth.org), and finalise the archive.
> 
> I have my own views on this, partly for personal reasons, but I would like to hear from others before I say anything. I know people have strong feelings about lists vs. web fora, etc., and any choice will definitely have plusses and minuses. 
> 
> Whatever happens, it’s been something of an honour looking after sc-users and sc-dev for the last 13 years since we migrated them in 2008. I’ve been really proud and happy that Birmingham has been able to support so much amazing activity, and such a great community!


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