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On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Richard A Jones <jones@colorado.edu> wrote:
>> The list is still called vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu, but you can send
>> help,subscribe,unsubscribe,set vanagon digest messages to listserv@lenti.med.umn.edu
>
> The word "still" rings a bell.  I do believe I remember this when the
> list switched to listserv software, which I was familiar with since
> we used it at the University of Colorado.  What has faded is
> what came before....  And how long.  I still think the list
> started in '92 or so.
>
> Conversion to listserv explains why the archives start April '94.
> There was no archiving before.  Derek Drew asked the next day about
> that--bragging that he had 30 MB of extra disk space to devote(!)
> but nobody answered about where any archives could be found.
>
> The Golden Age of Computing--UBW.  (Unix before Windows....)
>
> Richard
>
> PS: later that month Joel posted the list distribution:
>> Date:         Tue, 19 Apr 94 20:26:48 CDT
>> Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
>> From:         Joel Walker <JWALKER@ua1vm.ua.edu>
>> Subject:      vanagon list - locations of y'all :)
>>
>> well ... somebody happened to mention that they wondered just where everybody
>> is. so my fertile little brain modified one of those dippy little programs to
>> produce this:
>>
>> -AUS 2 FL 1 MI 1 RI 1
>> -CAN 5 GA 1 MN 2 TN 1
>> -UK 2 IA 3 MO 1 TX 4
>> AL 1 IN 1 NC 3 VA 1
>> AZ 2 KY 1 NY 6 WA 2
>> CA 14 LA 1 OH 4 WI 4
>> CO 1 MA 5 OR 2
>> DC 1 MD 1 PA 4
>> Unknown 41
>> Total 78
>>
>> this means that there are 41 of you that i can't figure out what your location
>> is from your email address. anybody that wants to tell me, i'll be glad to add
>> your 'loc' field in my file. looks like them danged californians out- number us
>> all!
>>
>> this is location of buses, by the way, not people. so if you have two buses in
>> texas, you show up twice in here.
>>
>> joel
>