[Coco] Thanks for the Princeton Bit.Listserv.CoCo Mail List. DRAFT

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 31 January 2004 23:24, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>DRAFT - DRAFT - DRAFT
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I have some trouble figureing out which will goto Princeton, and which 
is your comments.  However it looks as if the please shut it down 
portion should do the job.

FWIW, I contacted the Princeton folks, oh, maybe in 98 or possibly 
even earlier, memory is hazy, and that message doesn't exist on this 
machine although it might be on my firewall yet, or it may even be so 
old its on my now defunct amiga.  At that time I was told by some 
probably flunky admin that it was best not to disturb the service as 
the very act of raising a hand to request a change might get TPTB to 
decide it was no longer worth the hassle and shut it down just to get 
some peace and quiet.  Based on that message, I recommended to the 
group that we simply lay low and put up with the crap.  If they are 
now claiming that they could have fixed it, we must be talking to two 
different administration people, not impossible considering the 
elapsed time of nearly 6 years.

In any event, Dennis's server is working very admirably indeed, so I 
see no reason to continue the suffering of b.l.coco, other than to 
ask what will become of us as a group if Dennis does in fact move to 
the Netherlands?  If Princeton is shut down, will we have burnt our 
last bridge?  I think that aspect might bear some thought, and this 
is not meant to question Dennis's generosity in any insulting way at 
all.  Its a fact of life that things and situations do change.

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>---- Hello.
>
>Thanks to you and all those who started the Princeton
> "Bit.Listserv.CoCo" Mail List and have kept it going for 15 years.
>
>We moved the list elsewhere due to some (Most) people not being able
> to accept the huge amount of SPAM that we saw in our mailboxes
> coming from the list.
>
>We appear to be quite happy in our new location and just about every
> other day someone new posts a message who has not posted before.
> There are many projects underway and plenty of on topic discussions
> about our beloved CoCo. The lack of SPAM and the knowledge that our
> e-mail addresses cannot be collected has really enhanced the group.
> We are now approaching the level of members subscribed early in
> 1993 which was almost 300.
>
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>
>A thank you message will soon be going to Princeton thanking them
> for all the many years that they hosted the CoCo list and a
> suggestion that it be closed.
>
>The listserver at Princeton is collecting, archiving and sending out
> a steady stream of SPAM with no CoCo messages.
>
>We should have contacted you when the SPAM flood started, but we did
> not. Taking no steps to stop it caused our departure. I now have
> found the Listserver Owner commands that if they had been done, the
> SPAM would have been reduced and perhaps even stopped.
>
>As we made the mistake of not contacting you, some bad vibes may be
> heading your way from Princeton. They may be unhappy that you as
> list owner did not know what was going on and take steps to stop
> the SPAM. I and many others were discarding the SPAM from B.L.CoCo
> using the same flags in the header that the listserver could have
> been told to recognize and automatically discard the SPAM.
>
>Some of us would like to collect all the files, message logs and
> other files related to the CoCo list. We have collected all the
> public available files which go back only to 1998 thus the first
> ten years of the CoCo may be lost. If you know where some more
> files are, please tell us.
>
>Thanks again for your support for all the years. The CoCo list
> members past, present and future all thank you very much.
>
>Stephen H. Fischer <sfischer1 at mindspring.com>

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Cheers, Gene
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