[sdiy] Downside of unsubscribing

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Feb 19, 2010, at 1:23 AM, David G. Dixon wrote:

>> (snip) I suggest taking one of two courses of action: 1) one or
>> more individuals take it upon themselves to establish and moderate a new
>> list at e.g. Yahoo Groups or wherever, and we all unsub from this list and
>> move to that list, 2) we move en masse to the electro-music.com forums.
> 
> The forums (electro-music, Muff Wiggler, etc) are very cool, but don't
> really serve the same purpose.  The nice thing about [sdiy] is that it's
> linear.  Too much info gets lost on the forums because there are so many
> pages, topics, etc.  There's a lot of information on this list too, but at
> least it comes one message at a time.

Electro-music quite awesome, and I sometimes wind up looking at it when people link to specific threads of interest, or I find a specific thread accidentally through google searching; but in general, I find it too overwhelming when I log in at the top level.

Samppa occasionally flares up like a case of herpes. But, in spite of that, this is still one of the highest signal-to-noise discussion mechanisms anywhere on the internet.

- Aaron