Hi folks, I was thinking it would be cool if members of the Auditory list had more control over what they see from the list and I wonder if there would be support for moving it from the 'classic' listserv (a physical server, I think, someplace in Montréal) to something more modern with user-level moderation tools. For example, the ability to mute a thread while still seeing other messages to the list would be nice.
Awhile back Dan Ellis mentioned to me that some years ago there was discussion of moving to a more modern server but some people didn't like the idea. This may be worth revisiting — many of us find the Auditory list useful for recruiting students, crowdsourcing help for various esoteric questions, hearing about new papers, uniting a rather disparate set of subfields, and so on, but the very outdated tech of the listserv makes it more difficult than necessary to use and participate in.
Sam
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Samuel Mehr
School of Psychology, University of Auckland
and Child Study Center, Yale University
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