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@word2art @alv9n @sciencelifeny @zenbonk @yoonjo_choi @joshbegley @cshirky Thanks to the wonderful gift of @simonmweber , you can view all the emails at his site thelistservearchive.com

@alv9n @thelistserve @sciencelifeny @zenbonk @yoonjo_choi @joshbegley @cshirky I am so sad to hear @thelistserve is shutting down, as I am a relatively recent member. I feel like I missed so much. Any chance of an archive of all the letters? It's been a remarkable window into some fascinating people's lives and thoughts. Thank you so very much. Good luck.

@rafiq @alv9n @jfGi And expectations change when you take in money. It becomes a job. When this was our hope for the world. And you become a customer. We really dreaded that. Most of us do not have that entrepreneur's spirit.

@thelistserve @alv9n I know Good devs are like unobtanium. You could use @jfGi just for Getting it $BTC from your fans/ followers, easily

@thelistserve what's the issue?

@rafiq @alv9n @jfGi We are just not the people who want to solicit money from the community. It was a gift to the world, and we really never figured a way to reconcile asking the community for money. We are sorry that we are like that. Both @cshirky and the team wanted to fund it.

@rafiq We also have agreed that the lack of complete automation played a part in the success of it all. Like a backyard gardener tending their flowers, we wanted to feel a connection to the winners.

@rafiq This is still an internet experiment/project for us and we may not be the folks to take it to the next level even though we still believe it currently captures something unique and important for our digital lives.

Looking back on that day when @alv9n came up with this brilliant idea. And being dumbstruck by its awesome simplicity and beauty.

Sad news today. Best email newsletter out there. @thelistserve

@thelistserve I can't believe you're shutting down! Why can't you just leave the service running? I'm sure you could make enough though donations of patreon to keep the lights on!

Just got a goodbye email from @thelistserve 😢 Too many goodbyes, far too often

So sad to see @thelistserve shutting down. It was an unconventional conversational space with rich dialogue and ideas from the fringes. Godspeed. You will be missed.

@NNoll @thelistserve I may be the only person who ever sees it, but if you want to email me your listserve submission I'd love to read what you have. I hope maybe the thousands of subscribers will find some way to keep this going because I feel like there was something really imporant there.

@sikander @alv9n @sciencelifeny @zenbonk @yoonjo_choi @joshbegley @cshirky Would you believe that we just realized a few days ago that we may have to change things due to gdpr, but realized that the way we designed it at the start is compliant? No not gdpr, but lack of bandwidth, of ourselves and cost.

@NNoll @ajackley Don't delete them.

@ajackley @thelistserve I haven’t had the strength to delete my drafts yet :(

Sad to see @thelistserve shutting down. I joined in 2012 and I never won. Deleting now the draft of a love letter to a million people: “I love you. Truly, with all my heart. “ ❤️

@quistuipater Hence there will be repeats. This is way more human than machine.

@quistuipater There is no former winner check in the algorithm. It's random slots in the master list. You move slots when someone unsubs or subs

@kjrunia @alvin this is new :(

one more memory: youtube.com/watch?v=S2uH9r…