On 17 Oct 2013, at 17:38, Jane McGary wrote: > I'd rather see our material kept on the PBS website rather than on > Facebook... That makes two of us. > I am one of those who have some psychological resistance to Facebook. My resistance is purely intellectual. As has been said by others before, on the internet if something worthwhile is free, that's because *you* are the product and the real customers are advertisers. Facebook has not just a cavalier attitude towards privacy, but an outright malignant one. Zuckerman isn't an altruist; he's a businessman and a fairly ruthless one at that. Facebook is not an innocent operation over which one daintily exclaims "oh isn't that nice!" while sipping chamomile tea. There is no reason to put anything on Facebook; whenever I need to look up some matter-bulbous, Google often presents me with a PBS Wiki link as the first in the list of hits. There is absolutely no reason to balkanize our material by splitting it between two sites. Unless we as a group feel compelled to hold the hands of those too lazy or ignorant to use Google, the PBS Wiki remains a solution to the problem of disseminating knowledge-bulbous in a nearly optimum manner. Perhaps I should add that the PBS mailing list is (imo) for enthusiasts with some experience, not raw newbies who don't know which end of a bulb goes on the bottom. Note that my objections to Facebook don't even touch on the issue of them claiming that material posted there is theirs free to use in any other manner. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate