I suspect mailing lists could still out-live Facebook. I hope so anyway, otherwise for something better ;)
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:30 PM, kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com>wrote: > I hear more from former and current 313 list people on Facebook than I do > on 313 list. Just a sign of the times. It's been almost 30 years since I > got my first e-mail address, and not long after that I got on mailing lists > so...maybe a technology that has been mostly superceded. > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Philip McGarva <philipmcga...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> This article kind of depressed me, as it's mostly about the past. Sure >> there are a few good new tracks on the Still Music comp, but it's patchy at >> best and not any kind of real development of the Detroit sound. >> >> This article won't change anything. Did DEMF / Movement make any >> difference to how actual house or techno are perceived or enjoyed by >> mainstream audiences? I doubt it. Plus it's now about 25 years since techno >> emerged - what makes anyone think that peeps will suddenly 'get' it? Are >> EDM kids (I guess they're kids) into music from that era? As a teen I sure >> wasn't much interested in music from the mid-'50s. >> >> It's great that the artists mentioned are still playing out and making >> the kind of great music they always have, but that would have happened >> regardless of the mainstream anyway. >> >> Just my 02 - this list is pretty quiet these days... >> >> p >> >> >
