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

[John Kerkhoven]

Hear, hear!

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM Fabio Muller <pmnpfabio at xxxxx> wrote:

> 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....
> 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.
>
> [snip]


> >
> > 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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