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Sender: Alan Bawden Subject: CM> Discussion Lists, Rubik's Cube 1980-1.
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:55:04 -0700
From: "christopher f. chiesa" ...
Alan, your post also brings something else to mind. For what it's worth,
there's a somewhat obscure Web site in Germany which contains what seems
to be a pretty thorough transcription/archive of the Rubik's Cube enthu-
siasts' mailinglist from the MIT network circa 1980-81.
Nothing in your message indicates that you are aware of the facts that (1)
16 years later, that mailing list (Cube-Lovers@AI.MIT.EDU) is -still- in
operation, and (2) its moderator is -me-! Assuming that you found the Web
site I think you did, if you keep reading it you'll eventually get to some
very recent messages.
In fact I almost mentioned Cube-Lovers in my previous message to this list,
because Cube-Lovers wasn't formed very long after SF-Lovers, and so it must
be among the longest running mailing lists around. Of course Cube-Lovers
was never very large (especially in comparison to SF-Lovers!), but we
managed to hang on after the original Rubik's Cube fad was over, and
nowadays the Internet is such a large community that we have no trouble
finding interested subscribers. (The world as a whole is less interested
in Rubik's Cube every year, but the Internet is now such a big place that
even obscure topics can support a lively mailing list!)
So what are the oldest mailing lists, and which ones are still with us?
Header-People (for the discussion and design of electronic mail headers) is
still with us, it predates Cube-Lovers, but not (I think) SF-Lovers. Does
SF-Lovers still live on in some incarnation? The RISKS mailing list is
another old-timer, when did it form? Someone here mentioned HUMAN-NETS the
other day, is that still with us? Another high-traffic early mailing list
was ARMS-D, is it gone?
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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:55:04 -0700
From: "christopher f. chiesa" ...
Alan, your post also brings something else to mind. For what it's worth,
there's a somewhat obscure Web site in Germany which contains what seems
to be a pretty thorough transcription/archive of the Rubik's Cube enthu-
siasts' mailinglist from the MIT network circa 1980-81.
Nothing in your message indicates that you are aware of the facts that (1)
16 years later, that mailing list (Cube-Lovers@AI.MIT.EDU) is -still- in
operation, and (2) its moderator is -me-! Assuming that you found the Web
site I think you did, if you keep reading it you'll eventually get to some
very recent messages.
In fact I almost mentioned Cube-Lovers in my previous message to this list,
because Cube-Lovers wasn't formed very long after SF-Lovers, and so it must
be among the longest running mailing lists around. Of course Cube-Lovers
was never very large (especially in comparison to SF-Lovers!), but we
managed to hang on after the original Rubik's Cube fad was over, and
nowadays the Internet is such a large community that we have no trouble
finding interested subscribers. (The world as a whole is less interested
in Rubik's Cube every year, but the Internet is now such a big place that
even obscure topics can support a lively mailing list!)
So what are the oldest mailing lists, and which ones are still with us?
Header-People (for the discussion and design of electronic mail headers) is
still with us, it predates Cube-Lovers, but not (I think) SF-Lovers. Does
SF-Lovers still live on in some incarnation? The RISKS mailing list is
another old-timer, when did it form? Someone here mentioned HUMAN-NETS the
other day, is that still with us? Another high-traffic early mailing list
was ARMS-D, is it gone?
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