[FRIAM] Is this list dead now

[Gary Schiltz]

I've not been involved in lists like this one before. It seems a lot like a
family in certain respects. It is a weird mix of complexity folks (its
charter), those associated with the complexity and high-tech community that
sprouted up around Santa Fe / SFI / LANL / BiosGroup. It has some really
smart people who are not snobbish or arrogant, as evidenced by the fact
that nobody has asked either of us to leave :-)  To me, it has largely been
a way to stay in touch with a few people I got to know during my decade in
Santa Fe, and vicariously be part of that community. I hope it manages to
somehow stay together.

Gil, if I still lived in the area, I'd gladly be your gym partner. But that
would be tough from Ecuador. My main words of encouragement to you would be
to please don't stop trying. We all have our share of frustrations in life,
but don't let them drag you down to the point that you miss all the good
things around you. Go for walks (even if you have to by yourself sometimes)
and enjoy the sunrises and sunsets. Santa Fe is incredibly beautiful, and I
envy your still living there.

Peace

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> lol well said Gary, on my end anyway I get SOME traffic, I don't know when
> exactly it started to really dry out on my end anyway. Possibly 3-4 weeks
> ago was when I really noticed.
> I know on my my end to get any ones opinions or advice on or even just to
> say a friendly hello, it seems like I need to do so  many times--That comes
> off as rude.  I want to be wrong in that case and I want it to be a
> technical problem.  It'd really suck if it's because people are leaving
> what used to be a pretty vibrant list.
> As a concrete example I've seen nick thompson need to ask a few times just
> for advice on firefox.
> Yesterday and today because I really want to pick up the pace on making
> friends, and finding stuff I'd enjoy doing and even getting a new  set of
> resume and job helpers.
> I don't expect instant response lol but even a simple: Oh I'm sorry Gil I
> (or we)simply don't know! or friendly ribbing  goes a long away to kind of
> assure people oh, it's not actually dead quite yet-
> lol but you might be right that it's turning into that infamous Norwegian
> blue lol
>
> Preffering as I said in another email to be a open book or just open about
> questions, curiosities or what ever just ask.
>
> That leads to the awkward question then: If people are leaving and or it's
> a technical problem, Anyone know how do-able it is to give either the
> current list a fresh coat of paint or somehow smoothly transition into a
> general fun witty bantery type of list. As I have no clue how email lists
> get set up and going "just" may simply a petty heafty task ^_^
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 9:44 AM, Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
> wrote:
>
>> (Resisting the temptation of repeating the "dead parrot" skit from Monty
>> Python)
>>
>> I've gotten a lot of FRIAM postings from Nick, Frank, Marcus, and Glen
>> lately about philosophy regarding belief and doubt, so it doesn't appear to
>> be dead. However, it doesn't seem to be getting officially archived any
>> more, which is a shame. I believe Glen said that he keeps all emails, so he
>> probably could be tapped to supply the missing posts should anyone decide
>> to resurrect the archive by combining the old archive (from
>> web.archive.org) with Glen's posts. So far, nobody has stepped up.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Gillian Densmore <
>> gil.densmore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Simple question:
>>> Is the FRIAM list now basically dead? It seems like the previus witty
>>> banter is now MIA, hardly anyone posts or reads it anymore, Edd and
>>> possibly others complain it's not (THING HERE).
>>>
>>> So is this list now dead and or MIA?
>>>
>>> Does that mean someone needs to start a new one?
>>>
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