Hi Billy, On Jun 21, 2010, at 5:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Ernie: > Some questions. > > ( 1 ) What happens to the name "Centroids" ? This is a great moniker > and has objective value. If for some reason you simply don't want to use it > any more and don't care what happens to it, I would be the first to want > to pay for the privilege of a domain name of this title. But if you are > retaining > domain rights, so much the better. It is your idea, for which you deserve > full credit. > The point is that it should not be lost to others.
The thing is, Centroids isn't a "domain" per se; it is just a mailing list on a domain: Radical Centrist discussion list <[email protected]> Since the new "domain" will be googlegroups.com instead of radicalcentrism.com, it seems wiser (though painful) to make the the new "list" name RadicalCentrism, and retire Centroids. >> Send email to this group: [email protected] Still, if anyone has a better suggestion, I'm all ears. I suppose we could call it RadicalCentroids, but that would be even weirder... > ( 2 ) You said something about archives. Have you been able to reconstruct > RC archives ? If so I'd like to research them and copy all kinds of stuff. Most of them are here, though my ISP lost a few months (one of the main reasons I want to move): http://radicalcentrism.com/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/ > ( 3 ) While we will find out soon enough, how will the "rules" of the new RC > differ from the rules ( almost all of them unwritten ) of existing RC ? No real changes planned at this time. > Look forward to the new group and fresh ideas from new people. Thanks! -- Ernie P. > > Billy > > ===================================================== > > > > In a message dated 6/21/2010 4:52:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > Dear Centroids, > > I'm officially "back" from my sabbatical; many thanks to Billy and everyone > for keeping things lively in my absence! > > I regret to inform you I wasn't actually working on anything huge or secret > during my time off; I just needed some space to refocus and think through > several upcoming large changes (most notably, we're expecting a second child > in November!). > > As part of that, though, I've been rethinking what I want Centroids and > RadicalCentrism.org to be and do. > > After much deliberation, I've decided it is time to shut down this mailing > list and the existing website. > > <dramatic pause while everyone takes a deep breath of surprise, shock, and > horror> > > No, I'm not killing them off. Instead, I think it is time for us to move to > the "next level", and the existing infrastructure is too creaky. > > What I plan to do is move everything to a Google Group: > > http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > > You don't need to do anything, I'll add all the existing members once I've > configured the list. I think I've also figured out a way to migrate the > existing archives (after a fashion). > > Alas, this means I'm retiring the "Centroids" name. I'll always think of you > all that way, but I felt it better to choose a name that was findable by > people searching for Radical Center/Centrist/Centrism information. > > As for the existing website, I'm still waffling over whether to integrate it > into the Google Group (more central) or refocus it as a Wordpress Blog -- or > split the difference. > > While this may cause some disruption, this should make it easier for me to > maintain, and for others to join. > > Do let me know if you have any questions or concerns, or suggestions for a > more effective transition. > > Assuming no major objections, I'll suspend this list on June 29th and > relaunch the new one on July 1st. > > Yours truly, > Ernie Prabhakar > Centroids Administrator > _______________________________________________ > Centroids mailing list: [email protected] > http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com > Archives at > http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Centroids mailing list: [email protected] > http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com > Archives at > http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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