Every now and then, one of the scientists will post something very
interesting and educational. Some of the best planetary-scientists in
the world lurk on this List and they occasionally post some really
fascinating stuff. I think what we are experiencing here, in part, is
a drain of posts going from the List to Facebook. Many regular
posters here on the List are now very active on Facebook. And, people
have a tendency to forget the good quickly and then hang on to the bad
indefinitely. It's selective memory. In the last couple of months.
we have had thought-provoking discussions about meteorites and
planetary science. Doctors Rubin, Agee, Bunch, Korotev, Grossman,
(and several others who I cannot recall at the moment), often jump in
to a discussion to provide interesting and useful insights. Those
posts just get forgotten quickly for some reason.
In my 6+ years on the List, I have seen a roller coaster of activity -
sometimes busy, sometimes not. And, there are actually fewer ads now
than there used to be years ago. Many of the people that used to post
ads are now gone and we haven't heard from them much at all in recent
years. New dealers have come on to the scene and they post ads, but
it seems to me that the number of ads has not increased - it just
seems that why because fewer people are posting in general - so the
ads are more noticeable.
Facebook is a great resource, but it will never replace the Met-List. :)
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On 3/10/14, Bob Loeffler <bloeff...@peaktopeak.com> wrote:
"In this day and age, people want their posts to be instant, how it was
on
meteorite central before the over haul."
Hi Shawn,
In this day and age, posts via EMAIL are pretty much instantaneous. I
have
never gone to the website to read or post messages for this list. Is
there
a reason why you do that instead of just getting the posts instantly via
email? IMO, reading messages in a list such as this on a website is
archaic, but maybe you have your reasons. I used to do that on
Compuserve
20 to 25 years ago, but why go to different websites for all of the
community groups that you "read" instead of having the messages all sent
automatically to email? It's easy to set up rules in email apps so that
you
have all of the MetList emails in one folder, all of the
Pizza-is-yummy-Society emails in another folder, etc. But like I said,
maybe you have your reasons.
Regards,
Bob L.
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From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Shawn
Alan
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 1:35 PM
To: Meteorite Central
Subject: [meteorite-list] meteorite-list] List is getting torpid
Hello Listers
My two cents
The List went quite ish when Art did the over haul and personal I don't
go
to the website any more because the posts arent instant. Right now, if
you
go to Meteorite Central the latest post is from March 5th. In this day
and
age, people want their posts to be instant, how it was on meteorite
central
before the over haul. Now it take weeks before a post shows up on the
website, not sure why Art did this, but it sounds like its hurting the
website then helping it. Art, I wish the website went back to the way it
was, I would go to the website 10 to 15 times a day if not more, now I
don't
go, I have a link to some MC mail list that shows the postings, but for
real
time use on Meteorite Central its dated and not prevalent to current
trends
in social media and how websites work today with instant posting. Please
fix
Meteorite Central Art to how it was :)
Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633
ebay store
http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633nyc/m.html
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