Re: [AUDITORY] Moving the AUDITORY list?

["Peter P." <peterparker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dan,

i would second a move to a more recent mailing list software such as GNU mailman. I would disagree with a move to a google product as that company already has a too big information monopoly and because information should be kept free and accessible without violoations of privacy.  
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Criticism for an example
of that company's its search policy shortcomings.

McGill runs mailman installations in multiple places already, eg.
https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/mailman/listinfo/minc-users
but I am not sure if the psychology department does.

CIRMMT has a mailman installation
http://lists.music.mcgill.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cirmmt-news
who might even host auditory, who knows?

best, Peter


* Dan Ellis <dan.ellis@xxxxxxxxx> [2018-10-20 06:09]:
> Dear List -
> 
> Al Bregman created the AUDITORY list in 1992, and I took over as the
> administrator about a year later.  A lot has changed in Information and
> Communication Technologies since then, but the LISTSERV behind AUDITORY has
> remained largely unchanged.  In 2000 I home-spun a custom web interface (in
> Tcl!) to sidestep the manual edits I had been doing until then, and it's
> still what we use, running on my old lab's machine at Columbia.  That
> system is also showing its age.
> 
> As you may remember, earlier this year McGill blocked external web access
> to the Listserv as a security measure, eliminating the modest interface
> modernizations that had been added to Listserv since the advent of the
> world wide web. Many of you have since been caught out by the "confirmation
> link" that you receive in response to posting, but which no longer works.
> Just this morning I found out (after 25 years!) how to change the text of
> the confirmation message to eliminate this egregious misdirect.
> 
> However, it got me thinking about the future of AUDITORY.  In particular,
> the current www.auditory.org machine at Columbia won't last for ever, and
> my leverage there has declined since I moved to Google.  I wonder if we
> should move the whole list to a more modern platform? I would of course
> make sure the archives were preserved.
> 
> To me, Google Groups seems like the most obvious choice, but perhaps my
> perspective is skewed.  What do you think about the idea of moving off the
> McGill listserv, and do you have other suggestions for a good replacement?
> 
> Best,
> 
>   DAn.