[ExI] Is the ExI email list slowly dying out? And if so, what can be done to reverse such an outcome?

[BillK]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 10:28, Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> The 90s were an optimistic decade, you felt in the air that good
> things could happen and were about to happen. Space, bio/nanotech, the
> then young internet, virtual reality, new political systems... Now we
> live in a pessimistic and defeatist culture, and this shows here and
> elsewhere. Recovering the optimistic outlook of the early Extropians
> list is, I believe, what today's list (and world) need.
>
> Or perhaps it is just that we are all getting old and grumpy.
> _______________________________________________


I think we need to be careful how we treat new (younger) posters.
It is very discouraging for them to be told - 'Oh we discussed all
that twenty years ago'.  Older, grumpier members should try to go over
old-hat subjects with newbies. You never know, these weird youngsters
might come up with some ideas we didn't think of.  :)



BillK