The discussion list for Australian electronic music, which I started in 1998 (initially on Onelist, which was taken over by Egroups, which was then taken over by Yahoogroups) is no more.
Aus_emusic was a pretty cool community in its heyday, arguably bringing a number of different scenes closer together. The aus_noise list split off from it in 2000 and is still going. Sadly I feel that many lists from that era are in decline, with little interesting discussion these days, and so I’ve decided to move on. I’ve deleted aus_emusic, but handed on some other lists that I started (audiovision, cmc) to new moderators.
In the late 90s I was on over 100 email discussion lists, but now I’m on none, with the exception of a few work-related ones. These days email is a chore. My interest in online discussion has shifted to blogs and RSS.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:26 am - Edit
Tis the season for closing and renewal. Sevcom, aus_emusic etc…
Actually the only bummer about closing aus_emusic is that the messages are gone. There were some interesting discussion threads on the list which pop up in the googleverse. Would be good if Yahoo et you shut the list without deleting the messages.
Agreed that email is a massive chore these days… I reckon my life would actually be better off without it. That said, I remember when i used to start the day with 1.5 hours of reading and responding to my email lists. Those were the days!! I remember i had a lot less other email to deal with tho’!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:41 am - Edit
Yahoogroups has an export function for the members list, but not for messages, unfortunately. I have some messages archived, but lost others to a hard drive failure a few years ago.
Yes, lists were a lot of fun back in the day. Antiorp, anyone? =)
April 15th, 2008 at 12:42 am - Edit
ahhh soundhack list - antiorp@tezcat.com - 97 or so. and all the trouble he/she/it/they caused on the lists
Here’s a nice glimpse
And another