I wholeheartedly agree that newsgroups like this one serve a function that
Facebook groups can not replicate. There is also the issue that some of us
do not want to use Facebook. I am happy to say that many of the birding and
bugging newsgroups that I am subscribed to remain quite active.
But, more and more, these groups are moving from Yahoo groups to groups.io
because Yahoo does no longer maintain its groups infrastructure. Slowly but
surely Yahoo groups is deteriorating in an irreversible manner. You can
already see this by performing a search on [Nature Recordists] and noting
that none of the 2019 messages will appear. So how do we preserve the more
than 50,000 messages of this group? Has anybody made a backup? Is anybody
considering moving things to groups.io?
Wim van Dam
Solvang, CA, USA
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 3:37 PM Peter Shute
[naturerecordists] <> wrote:
> It's true that the world appears to be moving (or perhaps drifting) to
> social media. I feel this is simply because once you're on Facebook
> (etc?), it's easy. But for many groups where archives of previous
> messages are useful, it can be counter productive. It's relatively
> easy to search the archives of this group before asking a question,
> and many times one will find it's already been answered. Have you ever
> tried search a Facebook group? It can be done, but often the results
> don't take you to the best answer. The end result is the same
> questions being asked over and over. Not to mention fragmented across
> dozens of similar groups that have arisen because the group creators
> either didn't bother checking if one already existed, or went out on
> their own because they got in a huff about the rules of another group.
>
> This mailing list has worked well for many years. It would be a pity
> if it carked it just because new users find it a little difficult to
> subscribe. It's worth the effort.
>
> For the doubters, there are still many thousands of mailing lists
> active. Technical people seem to like them.
>
> Peter Shute
>
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 00:18, [naturerecordists]
> <> wrote:
> >
> > The world is moving from email groups to Social Media. It doesn't appea=
r
> there's a Facebook group for audio nature recording but maybe I've not be=
en
> thorough.
> > At one time equipment prices made nature recording somewhat exclusive.
> With many more people recording now there's likely way more recordings bu=
t
> fewer folks in community to talk about it.
>
>
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> Posted by: Peter Shute <>
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>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
>
>
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>
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"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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