Re: [Harp-L] Historical perspective of harp-l

["Rob Paparozzi" <chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, since 92! what a list!!
fjm? was I on back then? can't remember that far back...

anyway, bravo & mucho kudos to all the Harp-l admins and other workers that
work so dilligently 'behind' the scenes.

    This is THE best resource for Harp players ANYWHERE....so it's
imperative that we all contribute and support our list...thanx to fjm for
the recap and brief historical data...very interesting that we've survived
this long! We best start planning a 15 year anniversary!,-)

All the Best,
Rob Paparozzi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "fjm" <mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 8:05 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Historical perspective of harp-l


> I had a gig last night in which my amp plunged off the milk crate it was
> perched on and onto the stage floor, I stepped on my mic cord and
> unplugged the cord and the coup de grace, I erased a delay program in my
> Alesis Midiverb III that I've used for about a decade.  In the mad
> scramble through files vainly trying to locate a scrap of paper with the
> programmed paramaters written on it I discovered an interesting
> historical document.  A "review" of harp-l.  Prior to our previous
> majordomo existence we were hosted at Western Kentucky University on an
> mx server.  MX's version of a who is review.  On October 29, 1994 harp-l
> had exactly 187 subscribers.  At that moment in 1994 harp-l was just
> barely 2 years into its existence.  Born October 6, 1992.  Of the 187
> subscribers I recognise exactly 10 names of current 2005 subscribers and
> that's including mine.  Last time I checked, yesterday, our
> subscribership stood at 1107.  In terms of actual posts we're way up
> from the dark years where we'd intermittently disappear for weeks in not
> months at a time.  We are however down from the peak which was headed
> towards 2,000 and occured during the Hugh years at garply.com  Hard
> copies of ephemera, what an odd experience.  Kind of like the 40 year
> old photos that arrived in my mailbox recently. Somehow I don't see
> newer digital medias as being quite as persistent.  fjm
>
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