[Public-List] The end is nigh!

[George Dinwiddie]

With so many online forums, the era of email lists seems to have faded 
away. They used to be a convenient way to collect your correspondence in 
one or a few locations, to read and archive as you saw fit. Now email 
has become a nuisance to many people, full of spam and no one manages it 
on your behalf. People seem to prefer commercial forums, such as 
Facebook, even though it's smothered in advertising and user tracking.

I'm thinking, though, that it would be nice to parse the list archives 
into online pages with stable URLs. Does anyone have any good 
suggestions for converting MBOX files into a format that you would find 
convenient to read, preferably threaded in some fashion.

  - George


On 6/2/26 10:08 AM, George Dinwiddie via Public-List 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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