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<body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:50:04 -0500, Allison Friedman <afriedman@rateitgreen.com> wrote:<br><div>[big <snip>]</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Allison for doing the thankless chore that you do, facilitating these lists. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Just a ran-dumb thought:</div><div><br></div><div>How difficult would it be to combine all of the discussion lists into one and have it operate in a similar fashion to Facebook ?</div><div><br></div><div>As you've noted, the traffic on most of the groups has diminished to the point of being non-existent on some and I can't help but think that part of the reason is the email format .</div><div><br></div><div>Whereas in the Olde Days of the lists during the previous millennium when CREST was the sponsor, subscribers didn't seem to mind receiving 30 or more messages per day from each of the CREST discussion groups to which they were subscribed (and it wasn't unusual for someone to be subscribed to multiple CREST-run lists ) ... and some great discussion threads ensued . </div><div><br></div><div>Back then, people somehow managed to find the time to compose thoughtful, informative, fact-filled messages with word counts running into the thousands. </div><div><br></div><div> ie I remember a thread where Marc Rosenbaum was telling us about the debate he had (at an engineers convention (ASES ?) in Florida )with one of the principals of the Scandinavian architectural firm Gaia Lista who were big proponents of the notion of air/vapour-open "breathing" envelopes and Marc had the Guy from Gaia conceding that the facts didn't support the theory.</div><div><br></div><div>Today in 2016, rarely if ever, would anyone take the time to do that anymore. </div><div><br></div><div>It's not that people don't want to talk in 2016 . I just think that they don't want to do it via single-topic email listservers anymore. </div><div><br></div><div>If RateItGreen were to set up something like Facebook where multi-disciplinary discussions could be carried out at a website (if that's what a Facebook page is ... I'm thinking of something like the Facebook pages that newspapers run where there might be dozens of different stories on any given day ) and people could quickly scan through the topics and select ones that they want to expand and perhaps participate in, that format may see more participation than what's happening on lists like this one these days. </div><div><br></div><div>And perhaps that format would allow selective advertising in the sidebars to help with finances. ie I wouldn't have a problem looking at advertising from companies that provide Green products and services so long as those companies were carefully screened so as to minimise the opportunities for Greenwashers.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PS: I've copied Allison directly on this message just in case the listserver software does what it seems to have been doing to all of my messages lately, sending out a null message with the original as a file attachment .</div><br><br><div id="M2Signature"><div>-- </div><div>=== * ===<br>Rob Tom T6015O<br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<br><br>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot C a ><br><br>(manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "Reply")</div></div></body></html>