Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Moving the AUDITORY list? From: "Peter P." <peterparker@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:27:07 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>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@xxxxxxxx> [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.