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

[Kris Coward]

I almost offered up my server to host it, but then remembered that I stopped running mailservice a few years ago, when keeping up with the administration of all the antispam measures got to be too much (and still failed to prevent large quantities of spam from landing in my inbox). I wouldn't be surprised if similar burdens make up a large part of why the current list hosting provider is going away, but will cross my fingers that there's still someone out there who's willing to keep hosting mailman lists (hell, maybe an LLM can simplify the administration enough to make it worth doing again).

Cheers,
Kris

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Kris Coward
https://unripe.melon.org/

On Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 at 15:50, Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> I agree with Jay…
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> Surprise 426
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> Gordon Laco
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> > On Jun 2, 2026, at 3:42 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:
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> > 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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