Re: Carbon mailing list?

Hi Eric,

So what do you think about David's offer to set up a web site from his place.

I like the idea of keeping the list server technology, but we might
benefit from a web site as well.

Perhaps we could talk by phone about this. I really appreciate the
fact that you have kept this site alive and hope to have your
cooperation on any further moves.

Best,

Sandy

At 10:41 PM -0800 4/3/08, Eric S. Theise wrote:
>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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