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On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Steve Marak wrote:
What seems to happen is that people don't actually unsubscribe
from Aroid-L - they just stop posting. When enough people stop
posting, then someone will create a new forum using whatever the
current technology is, and everyone joins that because that's
where the action is, at least for a while. A lot of the community
is the same across all the different fora, because we don't want
to miss out. But we're all still here, and we will respond if
poked a bit, as the response to Jude's post shows.
Usenet groups were the first such gathering places of which I'm
aware (and it was mostly computer geeks on Usenet, because mostly
only we had access at the time), following by mailing lists
(Aroid-L dates to the early 1990s), followed by web-based
"forums", followed by Facebook and other social media. Who knows
what's next?
Mailing lists may actually be the crocodiles of the Internet
forum world, surviving with minimal changes through the evolution
and extinction of other, more transient species. My own opinion is
that's because (a) everyone has email, regardless of what other
fora they also use, and (b) the mailing list brings the posts to
you without you having to do anything. Web-based fora and social
media require at least some initiative to go visit the site or
start their app, which is why they nag you relentlessly to do so.
(Nice Schismatoglottis, Peter!)
Steve
On 8/7/2018 3:02 AM, StroWi@t-online.de
wrote:
Peter,
this
is a very nice comment on FB - I still regret the day (I guess
it was an aroid-L member) when the amorphophalllus group in FB
was opened; well, it has it advatages like easy posting
pictures etc and the manyfold contacts to people all over the
world; but you pint out nicely the disadvatages - let alone
the advatages for Mr. Zuckerberg..
I
was remarkable how quickly the aroid-L lost the active members
who definitely all switched to FB...
I
never joined FB and probably never will - interesting that
more and more people dislike FB; we'll see what happens...
Anyhow,
since you are a FB member, Peter, what about writing a post
there to remember people that the aroid-L is still there;
after it is posseble to post pictures here as well, it is more
attractive again - maybe even all the nice people and experts
in Amorphs etc. like Lord P., Alan G., Steve J, Christian T.,
Susan B., Tom C., Tony A., Scott H., Lester K., Marek A.,
Albert H., Steve M., and and and..... (sorry to all I do not
mention in a hurry.....) think about it and come back or
reregister....
Just
my 2ct....
Happy
growing, Bernhard.
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Betreff: Re: [Aroid-l] Zamioculcas - like
Gonatopus ?
Datum: 2018-08-07T08:56:36+0200
Von: "Peter Boyce"
An: "Discussion of aroids"
Steve and all... I for one would be delighted to see
Aroid-L with a new lease of life - the sheer quantity of
"messages" I get when posting anything on FB has led me to
being very selective, not to say the annoyance of trying to
re-find a post that only moments earlier was on the screen
but is now buried under a mass of images of peoples' food
interspersed with persistent adverts for incontinence
products.
Anyhow... in the vein of sharing... here is a nice dwarf
Schismatoglottis we are in the process of describing for
inclusion in the next Aroideana.
Peter
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