Re: Farewell to UT's vectorlist

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Neil Bradley wrote:

> Sure.
>
> In any case, everyone needs to know that there was no ill feelings
> anywhere on my part. I had an overwhelming number of requests (18 so far)

        Tee-Hee. That's pretty funny. Right before its demise, there
were about 175 people subscribed to the list. 18/175 = 10.3% Not an
overwhelming majority by any means. Most people forget that the concept
of the "Silent Majority" is generally valid.

        Starting a "rogue vectorlist" sealed the fate of both vectorlists,
IMHO. You've not solved anything.

        Even when my personal situations sort themselves out, I,
personally will not subscribe to your list, strictly on principle.

> to start a new list, and did so on everyone's recommendation/request - not
> out of spite for Paul or Joe. Until yesterday evening, I had no idea who
> ran the list. Right now there are 62 listmembers on the
> vectorlist@synthcom.com - How many were on the old list?

        175. You're about 1/3 of the way there.
 
> I can archive the messages here, too. I've started an archive of the newer
> messages as well.

        The point is that the archives of messages for the past 1 1/2
years need to be preserved. When the list is dissolved at UT, the
archives will most likely go away. This is clearly bad.

Joe
Received on Wed Jan 12 13:34:10 2000