Re: <nettime> Pruning and gardening

paul van der walt via Nettime-tmp <[email protected]> schrieb am Fr. 14. Juli 2023 um 21:48:

Hey all,

I wanted to reassure folks - tl;dr: if you're receiving this
email, you'll receive "new nettime" emails! :)

We (and please correct me if i'm misrepresenting things, other
mods) have no intention of dropping folks off the list. I'd like
to clarify what the intended course of action is:

* add all current subscribers of nettime-tmp to nettime-l when
it's ready,

* send out an announcement with the new list details,

* try to find folks we might've missed, and subscribe them, too
<-- this one deserves some explanation.

>From what i understand Felix explained, the reason we don't have a
"canonical, full" list of nettime subscribers, is because due to
spam and delivery issues over the course of time, Mailman will
have auto-unsubscribed people in some circumstances. These
recipients will necessarily have been missed when instantiating
nettime-tmp, and we want to at least make an effort to try and
figure out who might've been unsubscribed in this fashion. I'm
hoping there might be logs, if not, i'm thinking that scouring the
archives of the past year or two might be another source of email
addresses. The risk there of course is that we might pick up
addresses of folks who have purposely unsubscribed, and might
perceive it as "spammy" if we resubscribed them. But such is
life, and i guess it's the best we can do in the circumstances.

But rest assured, there are no plans to "prune" folks for
inactivity. Lurking is acceptable and welcome - i know i did it
for a while! :)

And as an aside, i did want to say that it's heart-warming to see
folks coming out of the woodwork expressing enthusiasm to continue
receiving nettime-l, even if not everybody has time or inclination
to contribute. I also perceive a shift in that it seems lately
we're allowing a lot of space for the "human" side of nettime --
expressing that we value it, that we value the connections made
through it, etc. I think that's great. At one point someone (was
it Felix or Menno?) said that nettime had a bit of a forbidding
"academic" aura, which i can understand. My personal feeling is
that being more free in our "meta-conversation" for want of a
better term, actually goes a fair way to reestablishing the
humanity of this community's participants.

Thanks everyone, keep well,

p.

PS: I'm based in Naarm Melbourne, Australia and am always happy
for a coffee catchup!
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