Re: Carbon mailing list?

Sandy King writes:
> The beauty of the carbon list is that it is free from commercial use.
> Is there any way we might transfer the list and archives to another
> venue?
>
> I would really like to see a carbon list or web site functioning
> outside of any commercial interests.

Well, this list/this venue, could be/could have been, quite a lot
of things. It was surprising to me that Mr. Sullivan could pied-piper
the carbon printing community away from the list with his forum so
easily, and, frankly, it was surreal when he addressed me abstractly
as the "present owner of this system" last May.

Hello, you know me, I am easily ascertained, my name is "Eric".

And color me naive and idealistic, but the owners of this system
are the active posters (jury's out on the lurkers). Me, I am a
technical facilitator, making sure that the messages get through
and that the spam does not; that archives are available and searchable
24/7; and that when people ask for a feature, I assess its feasibility
and implement accordingly.

I asked for ideas and submissions; Halvor Bjorngard and Katayoun
Dowlatshahi contributed pdfs for a "carbon library", that was it.
 
Look:

There's no reason to close the list if it is useful to the community,
but: "use or lose it". If people see [carbon] and groan in
anticipation, I want no part of it, and we are close to this.

Sloganeering from Howard Rheingold, the Whole Earth Review, and The
WELL, a decade or more ago:

    "what it is is up to us."

So it goes with [carbon].

--Eric
 
P.S.

> We are about to open an web site for S&S
> holders and I would like to save the archives on that site.
   
I am ignorant; "S&S holders", I don't know what this means.
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