On 1/8/21 10:42 AM, Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed wrote:
I disagree that these are all good points.
Ads pay the bills. Who pays the bills for the mailist?
I do. The cost is about 1/10 as much as I've lost with bad biz decisions
in six months. Figuring this list is 10% of my personal domain server
fees that's vaguely $50 so far for the past seven years, and if it was a
burden people would fall all over themselves to relieve me of it. A
virtual hat was passed and the domain registration is paid up until
5/25/2027. Ads we don't agree to are not my idea of a community service.
I long ago passed on somebody's urging that we monetize the web site,
let alone the email list. I've even hesitated to put a badge on the site
to publish the tiny ISP that's kept things going for me with amazing
availability numbers for over 20 years.
I would offer Google Hangouts to consider, where the entire stream of
content is persistent and, with enough back flips, possible to archive.
Except Google is putting a bullet through Hangouts' head in a few months
and I'm not happy about the traffic going through their systems anyway
and so I doubt I'd want to contribute to that change. (Of course: 90+%
of you use Gmail, so this might seem moot). I'm told everybody should
use the new "improved" Google Meet that segregates the AI training chat
to a separate app. And Meet works very, very well for audio and video
but the built in chat bites.
In my opinion a valid complaint is the limit on message sizes and some
forms of multimedia files being banned (by my ISP and he won't budge
because the vast majority of his users are on Windows systems and many
might still be W95!). Nobody has yelled much about this, to my
amazement. But my ISP deal is killer: if we need more space we can get
it, so bumping the posting size limit from 250kilobytes is not cast in
stone.
The amateur radio contesting list I'm on (also a GNU Mailman list) is an
overflowing fountain of useful information, friendly exchanges,
comradery, people bailing others out of crisis situations (software with
radio contesting is COMPLEX these days and Murphy waits until five
minutes into the BIG CONTEST before hosing you), etc. And yes, it's old
farts (guestimate median age of 58 and close to zero under 30). But it's
because we can get the *whole story* about poorly or maliciously
designed social media choices that if forced to move to FB there would
be very strong push back by many of the guys (yes, guys: amateur radio
in this country is roughly as sexist as so many other tech cliques and
the contesters are about 3X 'cause of extra layers of hangups that
create a very strong repulsion field). Actually, it's more fundamental
than that. The guy who has kept that list going for the past 25 years
would simply refuse to switch to FB and that would be the end of it,
'cause that group is run by a half a shoestring too and nobody, but
nobody would look forward to owning a GNU Mailman list who hasn't had
any contact with "computing in the old days" because it is simply alien
compared to modern approaches. But there is no walled garden with our
list. It could be moved to another server in an hour's time by my ISP
coordinating with others.
And the PRO's are overwhelming: deleting posts (ex, to limit the spread of
That's been a hypothetical with this list: it is impossible to delete a
post from the archive without begging to the ISP, and this has never
happened with this list. Instead we're extremely careful to vet
subscribers, but the bad actors are absolutely obvious like
[email protected] . But maybe I misunderstood your use of "PRO".
a bad link), simple polls, splitting broadcasts from conversations, or
a Q&A
requirement that qualifies members for joining, like:
name a circuit you're familiar with.
what's the functional difference between a robot and a cyborg?
That doesn't wash. The email traffic level is less than trivial. Getting
on the email list is less than trivial: mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> . I just tried it, and from clicking on the
main page, then email, then the admin link took less than 10 seconds.
Hmm, maybe should have this at the bottom of postings and a button on
the main web page.
But finally, this has all happened before. Before Internet was Arpanet
and before that was UUCP along with a vast but less sophisticated
bulletin boards, both driven by dialup modems. Remember usenet? Remember
the extraordinarily deep, broad discussions roughly segregated by
categories? That worked extremely well. There wasn't the division of
modern social media as much as fractured, bruised and battered egos,
chronic degeneration to ad hominem when somebody runs out of logical
arguments, etc. It was people being people, the trolling was easier to
see, but also the demographics of the participants was profoundly
different in contrast to after the Internet opened comms up to almost
everybody. But apart from (debatable) demographic changes being a
proximal cause of negativity I think one reason for the difference is
that it wasn't monetized, most especially not by folks who /do not have
users best interests as their highest priority/. In my opinion search
and social media business models and people's perfectly human but
apparently unbounded greed have all but destroyed journalism, most
especially at the local level, and the rest, as they say, is history.
-Pete
Enjoy the faux snow today
-gregg
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 9:31 AM John Vaughters via TriEmbed
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It's a new decade, email lists just aren't kool anymore. Can't
remember the last Trilug or TAR email. Over all the email lists in
my life, TriEmbed is the last one that even has some activity. So
Kudos to this group, no matter how small for keeping that torch
and thanks to the organizers that keep it going.
I remember a discussion in my early 30's with a then retiree. This
question I posed, "I wonder what technology will expire my
participation in the world?" Turns out I have the answer. Social
Media. `,~)
Of course like all young foolish peeps like I was, I thought, "My
generation is more flexible, more adaptable to change because we
grew up in a tech changing world?" I even floated the possibility
in the conversation. But the truth is I knew human nature and
history too well even then. I knew that most of us stop being the
hip crowd at some point in life.
I just can't do social media. No interest there what so ever.
But there you have it, a generational divide. I do not mean to
apply my thoughts to any single individual other than me, but I do
think I am just an example of many in my generation. Most people
end up being divided in some form or manner and technology is a
big divider. Just like my Grandparents always needed their VCR
clock set. Just like I hand my phone to my daughter to fix crap I
just don't really care about. I can keep the lights on by
maintaining power plants, but I could care less about the silly
world of Social Media. But isn't that my divide? Of course it is.
Not saying I don't use it, but I am saying I generally don't like it.
Have a fine day,
John Vaughters
On Friday, January 8, 2021, 8:53:14 AM EST, Pete Soper via
TriEmbed <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
The web site has a meeting reminder now with bread crumbs to the
Jitsi URL.
The TriEmbed email list subscriptions have been (99.9%) monotonically
decreasing for a few years. It is a shame the TAR list was lost in
case
a set difference could have been used for invitations to this
list. So
goes life.
-Pete
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