It is currently Friday 4 November 2011 in Greenwich. Close enough for me. This list runs on our own copy of LISTSERV. However, AOL (remember them?) is shutting down its mailing lists. "Ending a service it has offered for well over a decade, AOL is shutting down its free LISTSERV-based mailing-list hosting operations...." Why we continue the list rather than move to a forum: "Mailing lists still can provide a unique service for public discourse, said L-Soft's Eric Thomas <the creator of the LISTSERV software>. With mailing lists, users are not limited by any specific character count, and they can add attachments to their missives, Thomas said. People's dispatches are easier to find than with Facebook's newsfeed, where they can be buried under posts of other topics." If you're interested, the entire article is here: Jim |
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