Eric, I appreciate your work with this list for all these years, and I
think your instincts are right.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Patricia Martin <Patricia.Martin_at_ucop.edu>
wrote:
> I'm fine with a shutdown as well, and I also wouldn’t sign up via a Google
> group. Thanks for doing this for the community for many years.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:
> NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Sandra Abbott-Stout
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 10:03 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: ngc4lib mailing list adminstratativia
>
> Hi Eric,
> I'm fine with you shutting down the list. I wouldn't sign up via a Google
> Group.
> Sandra
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:
> NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:46 PM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [NGC4LIB] ngc4lib mailing list adminstratativia
>
> This is a bit of NGC4Lib mailing list administratativia. Specifically, I
> am very seriously thinking of shutting down the list.
>
> The University of Notre Dame hosts NGC4Lib using the venerable LISTSERV
> software, but the University is discontinuing support for LISTSERV and
> offering to migrate NGC4Lib to Google Groups. And for a number of reasons
> I’d like to bow owning NGC4Lib:
>
> 1. First of all, I don’t like Google Groups.
> For example, Google already knows about us. It don’t
> need to know more.
>
> 2. I seriously believe NGC4Lib has served its purpose.
> The phrase “next generation library catalog” became
> part of our nomenclature — more or less, and the
> whole thing eventually evolved into “discovery”
> systems.
>
> 3. There is simply not very much traffic here.
>
> For all of these reasons, I would like to discontinue the mailing list,
> unless anybody wants to take up the banner. Does anybody have some
> suggestions?
>
> —
> Eric Lease Morgan
>
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