Bravo Peter, I miss this list, too.
Klas / telinga.
On 2019-08-05 23:32, Peter Shute [naturerecordists]
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> 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
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> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 00:18, [naturerecordists]
> <> wrote:
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>> The world is moving from email groups to Social Media. It doesn't appear=
there's a Facebook group for audio nature recording but maybe I've not bee=
n thorough.
>> At one time equipment prices made nature recording somewhat exclusive. W=
ith many more people recording now there's likely way more recordings but f=
ewer folks in community to talk about it.
>>
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