Re: <nettime> process reporting?

[Andreas Broeckmann via Nettime-tmp <nettime-tmp@mail.ljudmila.org>]

Florian, thank you for the explanation and all the important work of the 
last years to keep the list afloat!

You write:

> 3. this means to me [please correct me if i am wrong] that it has
> become and will become increasingly unsustainable to run a mailinglist
> with several thousand subscribers in a *unmoderated* and *non-digest*
> mode like nettime-l.

In pragmatic terms, this is probably true; but as someone who finds it 
difficult anyway to understand why people entrust their most private 
correspondence to google, and who has been paying an independent 
internet provider (in-berlin.de) for mail and web services since the 
90s, I would say that it is possible to run such a mailinglist away from 
gmail, i.e. by accepting that people who choose to use gmail accounts 
actively exclude themselves (or allow themselves to be excluded by their 
provider).

The more in-principle question for us here is: Why is the choice of 
those gmailed people for a particularly restrictive provider taken as 
the determining factor for the fate of Nettime? (Is it as though we were 
to accommodate our rules and procedures to the Beijing government's idea 
of online communication?)

Regards,
-a

PS: And just a reminder that on the website 
(https://nettime.org/archives.php) there are also the "Archive of 
discontinued nettime lists" and, important for me personally, the 
"Archives of related mailing lists" (incl. a.o. the Syndicate list which 
we laboriously reconstructed a while ago).

These would, I hope, of course also be migrated with the rest of the 
archive.


Am 27.05.23 um 11:50 schrieb Felix Stalder via Nettime-tmp:
> https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2305/threads.html

> * So, we have about one month to find a new technical infrastructure for 
> the list (2000 subscribers as of now) and the webarchive (mid 1990s 
> MHonArc), and a new team of janitors. Both aspects, the technical and 
> the social, are not very difficult or onerous, but they require 
> continuous attention and long-term care. I'm happy to elaborate what 
> that meant so far, if somebody cares.
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