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List friends, Just a quick note to say that I agree with Roy’s recommendation (below) that the list be “migrated” to Google Groups. Taking our chances that another volunteer
manager would be able to keep the List in operation as reliably as Dan has would be OK if there were no alternatives. But in my experience most volunteer-managed discussion groups show functional decay as career pressures on the volunteers force them to put
less effort into list maintenance than is required. If we can be assured that security of our list information is safe with the Google system (don’t sell it to advertisers) it seems likely that it would be reliable and likely to be around for quite a while.
This is a value-cost issue and to me the preservation of the List has a very high value. I join Roy in thanking Dan for the exceptional contribution he has made to the community for all these years. Best to all, Chuck Watson Charles S. Watson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Departments of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Psychological and Brain Science (adjunct) Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 812-336-1766 From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Roy D. Patterson Dear Dan, Like the other people in this discussion, I have benefited greatly over the years from your support of the Auditory List and I wish to express my undying gratitude to you for the very valuable system you have provided. I also marvel at your ability to do
it. Having followed the discussion on the list with interest, I think migrating to Google Groups is a reasonable option, and if you are really willing to do the migrating, I suspect that it is very likely our best option. Dear List members who have participated in the discussion: I appreciate the reasoned arguments you have put forward, but I think you have not given enough weight to the advantages of the solution that Dan proposes. If he does actually have time to implement the move to Google Groups, I think we should accept the
offer with our sincere thanks. We have every reason to believe that he will provide us with a solution that will work well for most people. To start afresh with a new volunteer manager involves considerable risk. Best regards, Roy P --- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG email: rdp1@xxxxxxxxx phone +44 (1223) 333819 http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/roy-patterson http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/cnbh/ http://www.AcousticScale.org On 19.10.2018 16:14, Dan Ellis wrote:
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