Re: <nettime> nettime back and running

[Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com>]

Dear nettimers!

First of all, thank you Florian for taking the time to care, admits of 
the other stuff that has been going on, to resurrect the list! Kein.org 
has been a real home for the list for many years, and we are grateful 
for that.

The nettime has been offline for six weeks. The longest in its close to 
28 years of existence. During those six weeks, only a very small number 
of people inquired about the list. Perhaps most of you simply assumed 
that the list would reappear and thought that downtime is no big deal, 
or you didn't notice because in the context of information overload, 
it's hard to notice information that is missing.

Either way, it's not the best sign for the vitality of the list. This 
means, something needs to be done. As the janitors of the list -- the 
list has had no moderators for a couple of years now -- we feel that 
it's our (last) responsibility to initiate this process.

To be blunt: we don't want to continue in the role of care takers. Not 
out of ill-feeling, but because we have done it long enough. Perhaps too 
long.

So, the options are: someone else steps up and takes over this 
care-taking role and infuses fresh energies into the list, or we close 
it down.

We are very happy that we can use the list handle this process, rather 
than go down because of a technical issue, but now that the technical 
stuff is solved, the social can take precedence again.

It's time to step up and care!

As the used to say in the bad old days: Silence = Death. And, we might 
add, so is hand-wringing.

All the best,

nettime janitors (Ted & Felix)


On 30.04.23 17:50, KEIN Florian Schneider wrote:
> dear all,
>
> please accept my sincerest apologies for the long downtime, but the mail server which hosted nettime-l, as well as many more mailing lists and individual KEIN mail accounts, crashed after more than 15 years, in mid march.
>
> i managed to retrieve and recover almost all data but had to delay the work on the mailing list server due to an unexpected covid infection over easter. the good old but unfortunately rather outdated mailman v2, requires a downgraded environment which is finally up and running now.
>
> it looks like nettime-l should work as before.
>
> however, please note that the new domain name is: LISTS.KEIN.ORG <http://lists.kein.org/> and you will receive the mailing list messages from nettime-l@lists.kein.org <mailto:nettime-l@lists.kein.org>
>
> all the best,
>
> florian
>
> ps: if someone has a proposal for a contemporary mailing list software that offers comparable and backwards compatible functionality with mailman, please drop me a line. mailman v3 seems not to be an option and many large lists and their archives experience the same challenge.
>
>
>
> ——
> Florian Schneider
> fls@kein.org
>
> Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
> President of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)
>
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