[Public-List] The end is nigh!

[Gordon Laco]

I have to say I miss the list… I preferred it to facebook and am grateful to you George for creating it.

I have no idea how these things are manipulated so can’t help there.   (A glance at my awkward and primitive website proves this out… I need help there.)

Gord


Gordon Laco
www.gordonlaco.com
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> On Jun 20, 2026, at 12:07 AM, George Dinwiddie via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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