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

[jimcox at miba51.com]

Why are you so eager to kill the Princeton list?

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:24:59 -0800
  "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at MindSpring.com> wrote:
>DRAFT - DRAFT - DRAFT
>
>Any comments, changes, replacement text.
>
>E-Mail direct to me can be promoted to HTML to allow for 
>different colors
>and fonts if you wish.:)
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>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.
>
>------------------------------------- Insert new web page 
>link
>here ---------
>
>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>
>
>
>
>
>-- 
>Coco mailing list
>Coco at maltedmedia.com
>http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco