[Public-List] The end is nigh! Must it be?

[Jon Budington]

I would be happy to contribute financially or technically as well. This is
a valuable trove of information, and the connected community you've
maintained is much appreciated, George.

*Jon Budington \ President \ 703.751.3611 x214 \ morevang.com
<http://morevang.com/>*

*More Vang.*


On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM Jay Davenport via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

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> George, there are many Albergers who value the list, both for current
> activity, and for historical data.Is there any way to move it to another
> server, or to otherwise save it?I, and I suspect others, would contribute
> funds on a one shot or continuing basis if it would facilitate life support
> for the list.
> Jay Davenport
>     On Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 10:44:10 AM EDT, George Dinwiddie via
> Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>
>  I've received notification from my hosting provider that they will cease
> to support this mailing list effective July 21, 2026.
>
> That probably won't affect your life very much. The list is pretty quiet
> in recent years as people have moved most of their communications off of
> email and onto various social media sites. If you'd like to preserve
> some of the messages from this list, you can download them from the
> message archive at
> http://lists.alberg30.org/pipermail/public-list-alberg30.org/ and this
> will also be going away.
>
> I really appreciate everyone who has participated in this list. I
> started it around 1998 using the ONElist service
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONElist) which then merged with eGroups
> and was then acquired by Yahoo! Yahoo started adding "web bugs" to track
> viewing of the messages, so I decided in June of 2000 I registered the
> domain alberg30.org and hosted it on a provider that offered 'mailman'
> mailing lists. It's been there for the last quarter century, quietly
> facilitating conversations between Alberg30 sailors and aficionados.
>
>   - George
>
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