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Quitting a Mailing List
Jun. 12th, 2010 04:16 pmI quit the Trufen mailing list today. I've not exactly regularly posted so it's no big loss, but it was something I felt I needed to do. You see, I committed a crime. A serious one. I top posted.
I actually made a joke about it at the time, knowing the feelings of many of the group elders about the nature of communication. I still had a couple of snippy responses, including a pointless one about how the nature of the list is about erudite communication - something I've not really noticed in the list itself.
The thing is, communication, and the nature of communication is fluid. It changes. I'm sure there are people who miss handwritten letters with fine penmanship on a nicely balanced paper - there are those that miss well written typed letters. I'm also fairly sure than 50 years hence people will miss the art of a finely crafted Tweet.
My challenge is that those who ignore the nature of communication: be it a Blog as a form of fandom, or Twitter or any other version of interactivity are those doomed to eternally feel that they're missing out on something.
Chaps (for the most part): I'm sorry I'm a mere slip of a thing in my 40s, but seriously - shouting into an ever decreasing circle about how real fandom is being ignored is honestly going to be a self fulfilling prophesy. You know that nasty feeling you had when you didn't recognize James Nicholl's name? Get used to it.
The times they are ALWAYS a changing.
I actually made a joke about it at the time, knowing the feelings of many of the group elders about the nature of communication. I still had a couple of snippy responses, including a pointless one about how the nature of the list is about erudite communication - something I've not really noticed in the list itself.
The thing is, communication, and the nature of communication is fluid. It changes. I'm sure there are people who miss handwritten letters with fine penmanship on a nicely balanced paper - there are those that miss well written typed letters. I'm also fairly sure than 50 years hence people will miss the art of a finely crafted Tweet.
My challenge is that those who ignore the nature of communication: be it a Blog as a form of fandom, or Twitter or any other version of interactivity are those doomed to eternally feel that they're missing out on something.
Chaps (for the most part): I'm sorry I'm a mere slip of a thing in my 40s, but seriously - shouting into an ever decreasing circle about how real fandom is being ignored is honestly going to be a self fulfilling prophesy. You know that nasty feeling you had when you didn't recognize James Nicholl's name? Get used to it.
The times they are ALWAYS a changing.
