Dave, I had no idea you've been paying for this!! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I would miss the list if it was gone, but I certainly understand that things change and time marches on.... Beth Silverman ex-Solectria > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:16:50 +0200 > From: "List Lackey" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EVDL] EV List future? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Find a couple of questions for you to please answer / discuss below. > > About a week ago I got an unwelcome surprise - notice that the EV list's > hosting service will shut down discussion lists on the 22nd of this month. > > Good news: I've found a new host that seems committed to discussion lists > for > the longer term. > > More good news: It would add an integrated archive and an interactive web- > forum (BBS) to the list. That would make it more like Google Groups or the > old Yahoo Groups, but without all the advertising and the privacy > concerns. > > To be clear, the BBS would be optional. You could still interact with the > discussion list entirely via email, the way you always have. > > As a bonus, the new host would cost me about half of what I've been paying > for the last few years. > > But ... > > List traffic has been steadily declining since 2012 and the introduction > of > practical production EVs. In the last 6 months we've had about 260 > posts. > In 2010, we got almost that many messages per *week*. > > That's probably because the EV list has always been mainly a place for EV > hobbyists. > > Not many folks build their own EVs now. > > Also, most of the production EVs have their own dedicated or > semi-dedicated > (usually commercial / ad-supported) online resources. > > I suppose that there's EV discussion on social media, too. > > So, finally, my questions to you: > > Is the EV discussion list still useful to you? > > Should I keep it going? > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20260711/5de523eb/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ OT: If you use an Android device, please read https://keepandroidopen.org/
