[Harp-L] Harp-L Digest, Vol 266, Issue 2

[Fabio Muller]

Congratulations on the feat. Harp-l has an incredible history indeed.
Besides the new tech gen don't like email lists anymore, nothing is more
solid to retain history, information, and knowledge than a mail list /
forum. You can keep these bits almost forever if you wish. Which we can't
say the same about company products (Social Networks, Whatsapp, Telegram,
Slack, Discord and so on). Yahoo groups come to mind now. It's a work to
keep it running but worthwhile. The only thing with mailman is that it's
not so good to search, but I read there is some workaround like HyperKitty
(Mailman 3). Never used but seems a good idea to improve the search.
Anyway, thanks to keep thing going on. These treasures must be kept for
future generations, and yes a lot of things, tech speaking, changed from
1992 (I was using BBS back then); but one thing I say, technology passes
by, but art is eternal, and art knowledge is a stack based thing, we just
put more things on the pile; and I think you guys construct a hell of a
good pile here. Brgds.. Fabio.



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> Subject: [Harp-L] Happy Birthday Harp-l  6 October 1992
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> I am including a link to the first month of posts, click on it if you're
> curious.  https://harp-l.org/pipermail/harp-l/1992-October/date.html  The
> first several months are mostly people saying hey what is this, hello.  It
> ramps up quickly from there.  The archives are worth looking at, much
> harmonica history in those pages and a lot of or it was contemporaneous
> accounting as it was all being discovered. 33 years old now.  The world
> harmonica players live in now is so different, you tube videos, people
> telling you how they played a certain piece and what harmonica(s) they
> used etc.  I say this every now and again, there were no browsers when
> harp-l started.  A lot of folks who were on the internet used .edu
> accounts or government accounts to connect.  AOL existed but they were
> small.  Access was mostly via dial up.  I look at my life and 1992 seems
> like it was yesterday but the reality is so many things have changed, ok
> well not harp-l really.  Plain text, no images or embedded links, a
> dispersed harmonica community.  In the beginning we were it.  well there
> was usenet now that I think of it.  I don't miss VI or ELM but I still use
> PINE (pine is not elm) every now and again to cull garbage e-mails that
> get dumped into root, so many that I cannot open the mailbox with a modern
> tool.  Actually we fixed that problem so now I'm done with PINE, rambling
> as usual.  As I paged through the archives recently I was aware of how
> many of the early folks are no longer with us, Bob Williams, Jack Ely,
> Bruce Steinberg, Tim Moody, the list is too long.  harp-l-listowner
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