As a really long time reader of this list (something close to 40 years), I would love to see this list continue. As with almost all E-Mail distribution lists, a lot of traffic has moved to forums, or social media. For systems that get high usage, a forum is fine as none of us likely want to get hundreds of messages per day, but for low traffic systems the E-Mail list has the advantage of not needing to go to some web site to see if anything has changed. Having a web based archive is great as it allows going back for old traffic. I really hate to see systems move to social media only because so often fans of whatever social media forget that there are lots of people who refuse to use social media.
Jim Walls [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: "List Lackey via EV" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2026 22:16 To: [email protected] Cc: "List Lackey" <[email protected]> Subject: [EVDL] EV List future? 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 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. -- Wendell Berry = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
