For me - as a long-time lurker - the benefits are about feeling connected to a 
wider network network of people engaged in both similar and contrasting kinds 
of thinking and doing. The list feels like it opens possibility of finding 
support in my future and current endeavours. Nettime is freed from some 
institutional and organisational politics (though they will always be 
ever-present) that makes different kinds of discussion possible. I don't have a 
problem with a sloooow drip as rapid lengthy discussion was frequently 
difficult to engage with during times of precarious work, birth of young 
children, and in the midst of activst campaign. 

I seem to be just visibly engaging so it would be shame for Nettime to fade 
away... 
Tom K 


On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, at 9:51 AM, Felix Stalder wrote:
> I would try to reverse the question. Not what are the costs (which are
> hard to calculate anyway), but what are the benefits. And if they
> approach zero, then it's time to stop in a decent way (and archive the
> list for good). There is no use to do useless stuff. There is enough of
> that on the world.
> 
> For me, the benefits have decreased, but are they close enough to zero?
> What could be done to increase them? What would constitute a benefit,
> and to whom?
> 
> Felix
> 
> 
> On 02.09.19 22:28, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> > If the cost of running the list was exactly zero (let's not delve into
> > details at this point), would you still kill it?
> > 
> > If yes, then we have an interesting case of potlatch, without bonfire.
> > 
> > 
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