Re: <nettime> closing nettime-l, uh?

[Frank Rieger <frank@ccc.de>]

As a most-of-the-time lurker but continuous reader, I would very much appreciate if the list continues. Low-traffic mailing lists are the quintessential "good" form of noise-reduced closed user groups, which will be the future in our LLM-outpu infested new world, and I would hate to see this one go.

Thanks & Greetings,

Frank

> On 11. May 2023, at 14:40, Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> if I look over the list traffic of the last 10 days, I don't see much energy to continue the list. The only concrete offer to contribute some effort came from Jan Wildeboer. I rally appreciate it, but technical care is only one of the aspects that is necessary to make it worthwhile to continue the list.
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> Thus, after many 'nottime' April Fools Day jokes, let's close the list for real. At this point, I cannot see whom to hand over the list and there is tldr.nettime.org which, of course, is vastly different from the list.
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> Almost 8 years ago. Ted and I -- on invitation for a tactical media anthology that hasn't made it to print (yet) -- wrote an essay of the history of nettime-l.
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> https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1511/msg00001.html
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> It's not without flaws, undoubtedly doesn't do justice to the many people without whom nettime-l would not have come into existence in the first place nor lasted for as long as it has.
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> I'm sure someone will write a better history at some point, and if you want to put something for them on the record -- that is into the archive at nettime.org (and a few other places that also archive the list) -- the time is now.
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> For me, personally, nettime has been of tremendous value, intellectually but also a source of deep and enduring friendships. My life has been better because of nettime and I'm grateful to every contributor and lurker on the list.
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> Felix
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