Date:         Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:12:47 -0700
Reply-To:     Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: List member count
Comments: To: Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com>
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> 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