[Public-List] The end is nigh!

[Mike Meinhold]

George

Let me pose that to my son. He probably would have some solution.

On Sat, Jun 20, 2026 at 06:17 Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> 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
> 705-527-9612
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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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> >  When I remember bygone days                         George Dinwiddie
> >  I think how evening follows morn;            gdinwiddie at alberg30.org
> >  So many I loved were not yet dead,           http://www.Alberg30.org
> >  So many I love were not yet born.                          also see:
> >               'The Middle' by Ogden Nash     http://idiacomputing.com
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