Hi, Ben! Are you still up here in the NY area?
Steve Weinstein S/V CAPTIVA 1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376 Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY All outgoing mail protected by VIPRE A/V -----Original Message----- From: Ben Okopnik Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 10:28 AM To: liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] EXT : Any other lists more active? On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:15:02AM -0500, Skip Gundlach wrote: > I'm part of cruisers_online_network, a truly international list (many > receive > their mail/listserve over Pactor)... > > I'm away from my home computer, but I'll follow up in a week or so with > info on > that one. Google is your friend: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cruisers_Network_Online/ :) > That said, I wouldn't disengage from this. ═Also, I DETEST web interfaces > of > all stripes, much preferring listserve, or at a distance, NNTP newsgroups, > where stuff comes to my mailbox without the need to log on, go to a web > site, > or any other much more bandwidth intensive activity. ═It also allows me a > preview of what I'm either going to open or disregard, vs having to wade > through lots of title-only stuff in forums... Having grown up with the computer industry and having started with BBSes and later USENET, I feel exactly the same way. What a waste of bandwidth, and what a horrible restriction web-only interfaces are! As my own small blow for justice, I wrote a kit of programs that daily retrieves all the posts from a certain Yahoo group, parses them back into their original format (i.e., email), and backs them up in a searchable archive. In some ways, it's one of the most satisfying projects I've ever done. > My 2 cents; this is a great list, Agreed! Ben -- OKOPNIK CONSULTING Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
