II. slow extinction vs life on the red thread

in the middle of last month Tom Erbe announced the 'dissolution' of the freesound list, a list dedicated to the discussion of "the use of free and fringe sound tools on all platforms." Erbe stated that due to low/no activity over the last year he would end the list + recommended ppl move their attention to the Facebook + MySpace groups for freesound/soundhack that he had created

m e t a, an artist for whom i gave a great appreciation/respect, replied, writing that "the mailing list format as is slowly going extinct & being replaced with the message board / we forum format." i found this sentiment odd in my inbox, as if it was a message sent from the past, dusty pixels from say the late 1990's or early 2000's... i experienced a sense of deja vu when reading that line + actually had to reread it several times to believe it existed. after i had accepted this glitch in the matrix, the thread continued. friends said hello to each other casually + happily like long lost relatives @ a family gathering that everyOne has wandered into or just happened to already be in. Heather Perkins proposed to re:initiate the dialogue that Tom Erbe had initially created the list for, i.e. "the use of free and fringe sound tools on all platforms." Perkins succeeded in sparking a conversation which went bax + forth && lasted for a few daze. separate threads were born of this initial thread to deal w/each specific topic (in this case various free/fringe audio applications) + then a thread started called "life discovered on freesound". this thread's subject evokes interstellar exploration + expansionism, the fantastical outerspaced-out extension of American Frontierism; Mars rovers and international space stations; Kennedy, Obama, Richard Branson, as well as the Cold War rise of computational technologies, the RAND Corporation, Microsoft, Apple, Reagan + the consumer computer market with it's invention of commercial software, BBS's, Gophers + AOL running on a {deregulated/demilitarized} internet backbone across the .US @ 14.4 K... in any case, this thread was not a signal of a close encounter w/alien intelligence, but rather a continued discussion of free/fringe audio apps. i continued to lurk, watching stars align + rearrange their shapes. when it comes to lists i have to admit that i have not been as active as i once was