From the June 2023 GNSI Newsletter: by Sara Taliaferro, GNSI President
GNSI members first gathered online in 1996 to share tips and to connect through the GNSI listserv, hosted through the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and managed by Lana Johnson. Stephen DiCerbo’s regular feature in the Journal of Natural Science Illustrators, “Ripped from the Listserv”, spotlighted some of the gems and hot tips from listserv posts. We are saying goodbye to this platform and to an era as of June 30th, as UNL phases out this listserv service. Our ways of connecting are evolving, along with our organization as
I've only taken a quick look at Discord. I admit freely to being an old fart, and not overly crazy about anything but Facebook and I'm not nuts about that either. From what I have seen, I have to choose which channel I want to read, but there are several and there are discussions on them all. I don't relish spending all of my time looking at all these channels to find discussions -- I think I will miss the listserv.
I agree--it seems chaotic, with too much distracting stuff going on. Is there a way to get posts similar to the listserv, without the noise ('discord')? Chris Gralapp
On 6/6/2023 10:27 AM, Gail Guth wrote: > Non-NU Email > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I've only taken a quick look at Discord. I admit freely to being an > old fart, and not overly crazy about anything but Facebook and I'm not > nuts about that either. From what I have seen, I have to choose which
Discord is different than a list serve. List Servers interact via email. Discord interacts with itself….
So, the way to participate is to download the Discord App and in your system user settings, set it to auto start when you start up your computer. It then just sits in the background until a message comes in from the channels you are following. It lets you know a new message is available with one of those little pop up message items you get on a mac (I assume PCs have a similar notification system). The ignore or respond as
Thanks, that helps -- but the problem of the mutliple channels remains. Do I have to choose all the channels? Do I want to? I will explore more but it seems like a lot of time to spend looking for information I am not sure I want.
-Gail
On 6/6/23 2:27 PM, Griswold, Britt (GSFC-279.0)[LUSA Associates] wrote: > Non-NU Email > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Discord is different than a list serve. List Servers interact via > email. Discord interacts with itself…. > > So, the way to participate is to download the Discord App and in your >
Well, If you select all channels in the GNSI Discord, it would be no different than getting notification of all the content on the list serve, it has just been pre-divide up for your convenience, in case only one type of content is of interest to you. The trick is to use the app. You can view it with a web browser as well, but you won’t get notified on your computer when content appears.
On 6/6/23 2:52 PM, Griswold, Britt (GSFC-279.0)[LUSA Associates] wrote: > Non-NU Email > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Well, If you select all channels in the GNSI Discord, it would be no > different than getting notification of all the content on the list > serve, it has just been pre-divide up for your convenience, in case > only one type of content is of interest to you. The trick is to use > the app. You can view it with a web browser as well, but you won’t get > notified on your computer when
Thanks for managing tech support, Britt! The listserv does not play nice with gmail so I only get occasional messages and am unable to help much, so your interfacing is much appreciated—but if anyone needs to reach out for help after the listserv disappears, I manage the GNSI Discord and can be reached directly at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
I’m hoping to find out if anyone else has received an email like this, with the subject line: PROJECT INQUIRY It has several spam-yellow flags for me and I’m going to politely decline but thought I’d share it with the group first, just in case I’m way off base. It’s has a couple new twists, if it is spam but I don’t have the interest or time in pursuing it further to find out what his follow up email would be… Also, let me know if is you're interested in pursuing this as a potential project
Yes, Kirsten, this email is circulating the AMI list right now--many have received, and with different names and disabilities. It is spam--your instincts are good!
On 6/5/2023 11:45 AM, Kirsten Carlson wrote: > Non-NU Email > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Hi everyone, > > I’m hoping to find out if anyone else has received an email like this, > with the subject line: PROJECT INQUIRY > It has several spam-yellow flags for me and I’m going to politely > decline but thought I’d
I would say it’s probably spam. Unless they have an organization behind them that you can research and vett, I’d be very suspicious of things like this. Often in related-sounding schemes, they will over pay, then send you a bad check, and then ask for you to send them (good) money back. I’d be hesitant. I mean you can always ask for more information but it’s so easy to put up a genuine-looking website, even that is hard to determine whether it’s a real thing or not unless you go down the route of checking references, reviews, etc.
I’ve be getting these same type of emails from several months. They are always a similar message but with different names signed. Clearly spam.
I hate that we need to be so suspicious of any inquiry, but that’s how it is.
Carol S
> On Jun 5, 2023, at 4:49 PM, Karen Ackoff <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Non-NU Email > I received a variation of this as well. I was suspicious, and did not respond. Given that this is showing up for a number of people, I’ll take it as spam. > > I looked up the name
I received and inquiry like that, but it was to make animal sculptures from someone with a hearing disability, and they needed these animal sculptures for a workshop about animal abuse, when I asked how they were going to use them in the lecture and asked the name of the affiliate organization that was going to write me the check, and if I could speak with someone at the organization that was going write me the check, I never heard back from that person. I am pretty sure it was a scam.
