Re: [Harp-L] 20 years ago today harp-l began

["Leonardo K. Shikida" <shikida@xxxxxxxxx>]

this is the kind of stats I am curious about

how much time people have been stayed in the list since subscription

congrats, harp-l! have a cake! (there are plenty of options)

https://www.google.com/search?q=harmonica+cake&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Z1q&rls=org.mozilla:pt-BR:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=BHJxUO6VApKc8wSq4oC4Cw&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=873

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Kenji

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of
doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence. (Bukowski)


On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 7:30 PM, George Miklas <harmonicat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Going back into the archives.... looks like I registered on the 5th of
> November 1993... A year after Harp-L was born....
>
> gm
>
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Bob McGraw <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Happy birthday harp-l, and thanks to all the people who gave the time,
>> expertise and money to make harp-l happen and keep it happening. The
>> argument could be made that this list is one of the most important
>> developments in the harmonica world, period. I would not be the player that
>> I am today if not for harp-l.
>> Thanks...a huge thanks.
>> WVa Bob
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2012, at 8:56 AM, owner-harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>  Here's a link to that first month and the text of the first post.  If you
>>> read past the first week things begin to pick up.  There are actually more
>>> than a couple of people still subscribed to harp-l who were around pretty
>>> much as the list began.
>>>
>>> Harp-l began as a humble student run LISTSERV hosted on the Western
>>> Kentucky University computer systems.  The original listowner was Chris
>>> Pierce.  When it was no longer possible for Chris to run the list we were
>>> forced to find a new home, we settled at Garply systems and we were run by
>>> Hugh Messenger. An interesting time and the the list was hopping.  Our
>>> peak post volume occurred in this time frame.  Hugh's life changed and he
>>> was no longer able to keep up with the tasks of list ownership.
>>>
>>> We continued to be hosted by garply and later the entity that garply
>>> became.  SPAH at the behest of Douglas Tate covered the costs of our
>>> hosting.  Initially Danny Wilson and then later a team of 3 took over the
>>> ownership duties.  The team of 3 included Michael Polesky, Ken Deifik and
>>> I believe Robert Gaustad.  Michael quickly became the last man standing
>>> and ran the list for years with the assistance of Jonas Karlsson and a
>>> small team of volunteers called harp-l-workers.
>>>
>>> Our Garply hosting became less reliable as the company's interests,
>>> ownership  and focus shifted.  If you peruse the archives you'll notice a
>>> gap.  That gap was generated by a Garply disk crash.  Michael personally
>>> paid to have the disk replaced in a era when a replacement disk for a DEC
>>> Alpha was close to a thousand dollars.  Years later Michael paid to have
>>> the 2nd Garply disk data recovered when it was shipped to me loose in a
>>> box damaging the drive.  All of the harp-l archives including the gap era
>>> were recovered.  The reason they are not currently up is they have
>>> formatting issues.
>>>
>>>  From Garply we moved to a new host whose name currently escapes me.  We
>>>>
>>> did acquire the use of the name harp-l.com at that time.  Dave Gage
>>> generously obtained the domain name and paid those fees for years for us.
>>> Our hosting was unreliable.  We were off line for a couple of months
>>> twice.  Membership being loyal we always bounced back but it cost us.
>>> Other resources became available and harp-l has never again been as
>>> prolific as it was during the Garply era.
>>>
>>> I've been involved with harp-l since the WKU era.  I became involved with
>>> the harp-l-workers group during the Garply era and during the middle of
>>> the Michael Polesky era I was in many senses the person running harp-l.
>>> Frustrated with our hosting I teamed with Ben Nathanson another long time
>>> harp-l member to find a better more reliable way to keep harp-l afloat.
>>>
>>> We ended up acquiring the harp-l.org domain name and used it to test
>>> hosting sites .  We got lucky and our second hosting choice, rimuhosting
>>> ended up working perfectly for us.  We set up parallel lists using the 2
>>> domain names.  This way we were able to beta test the new system while
>>> still maintaining the old list.  We switched from our long time mail list
>>> software, Majordomo, to our current system Mailman.
>>>
>>> On July 30, 2004 harp-l was finally hosted on its own server with control
>>> over every aspect of the system.  We own the domain names thanks to Keith
>>> Graham and Dave Gage who generously allowed us to acquire them.  We are no
>>> longer SPAH supported, we've been independent since the server switch.
>>>
>>> So thanks to Chris Pierce our founder and each and every one of you who
>>> helped along the way.  That a student run internet list started before we
>>> had web browsers still exists today is more than a minor miracle.
>>> harp-l-listowner
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://harp-l.org/pipermail/**harp-l/1992-October/date.html<http://harp-l.org/pipermail/harp-l/1992-October/date.html>
>>>
>>> WELCOME to all!!!
>>>
>>> This listserver is for harmonica lovers/players/enthusists/and any one
>>> else that is interested.
>>>
>>> This is not for any one particular style of music.  I hope that
>>> through this list much can be learned from all different forms of
>>> harmonica playing.
>>>
>>> Blues, Jazz, Swing, Folk, Country, Rock, and ALL others are welcome.
>>> If you have questions or if you would like to share your ideas,
>>> experience and knowledge, please feel free.
>>>
>>> It will probably start out slow, but after a while I think this list
>>> should work out well.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Good Harpin',
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris Pierce
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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