Re: Where are all the pinholer's?

Eric S. Theise wrote:
>
> Certainly someone will be along very soon to tell you that this
> list is not the place where things are happening, and that all the
> action is at the f295 web forum. The bulk of the posts to this
> list over the past year (or two) have been to that effect.
>
> For those of you who've missed it, or recently joined:
>
> http://www.f295.com/

A web forum is not a replacement for a mailing list.

> I think the continued existence of the pinhole-discussion list only
> serves to fragment whatever pinhole photography discussion may be
> taking place on the Internet, and I propose that we shut this list
> off, effective end-of-day August 31st.

I disagree that this lists fragments the community. Hardly anyone
posts here anymore, so who is fragmented away from the rest of the
community?

To my eye the f295 forums are fragmented. There are separate forums
for color and B&W for each of pinhole, and zone plate, plus a
alternative process forum (What was wrong with the existing
alt-photo-process-l list?), and camera making, etc.

> The archives will remain in place indefinitely at spitbite.org.

Thank you for that, and for hosting this list.

> If someone would like to take over the list--and by that I mean
> finding a new hosting service, setting up the software, moving the
> archive, the whole deal--please contact me either on or off list.
> But I'll repeat myself: I think the best thing to do to further
> pinhole photography on the Internet is to close down this list and
> direct everyone to where there's some vitality to the conversation.

If you are looking for a new place to host the list, freelists.org is
a nice hosting site. There are several photo related lists there
already.

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reynolds@panix.com              |  the important thing is to understand 
http://www.panix.com/~reynolds/ |  what you're doing rather than to get
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