As far as I can tell, topica is an online marketing company that only
incidentally offers email list service. Topica, for instance, "reserves
the right to communicate with List Subscribers via email, receipt of
which by List Subscriber is considered by Topica essential to our
provision of service." "Topic operates an Advertising Network (the
"Network") for lists hosted on Topica Exchange, inwhich Topica inserts
advertisements into list email messages. All Topica Exchange
Newsletters (also called Announcement Lists), and any existing Topica
Discussion Lists that convert to Newsletters (Annoucement Lists), are
automatically added to the Network and participatino is required."
Topica also inserts tag lines to each message advertising themselves.
In other words, Topica host lists so they can spam those lists (all
quotes are from the subscriber agreement), and they reserve the right to
'share or sell data'. They say they archive messages, but for how
long, and how much disk space are they promising? They say the archives
are searchable, but only by members, so they are not Google searchable,
which has been an important feature of Spoon archives.
In short, it's fine that you set up a heidegger list (or any other list for that matter), but before proposing that your Topica list is a simulacrum of the Spoon list (which it clearly is not) you should make sure that you know and that people on the present list know exactly what one is getting involved in. Before precipitously creating and committing to some host I would recommend looking around, doing some research, and finding not just some place that will host a heidegger list (there are scores of such places) but on that will host the list in a manner that suits the members.
reg
michaelP wrote:
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In short, it's fine that you set up a heidegger list (or any other list for that matter), but before proposing that your Topica list is a simulacrum of the Spoon list (which it clearly is not) you should make sure that you know and that people on the present list know exactly what one is getting involved in. Before precipitously creating and committing to some host I would recommend looking around, doing some research, and finding not just some place that will host a heidegger list (there are scores of such places) but on that will host the list in a manner that suits the members.
reg
michaelP wrote:
Hi every one, just in case the automatic invitations, to join the new attempt at a heidegger list to carry on (perhaps) after this one dissolves
in a week or so, have not gotten you all, if you wish to join and see if it
suits you, then please do the following:
send a blank email to a particular address, of which this is everything
except the asterix -- please substitute the letter "u" for the asterix [the
reason for this is according to malgosia, that if I (as I have several
times!) use the s-word (s*bscribe) then the server-thing at spoon thinks it
is a request to the server and not a message to the list...]; the address:
ThinkHeidegger-s*bscribe@xxxxxxxxxx
Hope this is clear ;-)
regards
michaelP
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