Ferrari Mailing List: Re: How old is the Ferrari List?

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

Well Steve -

Sure met a lot of nice people world wide here

Even rekindled a mid-sixties friendship with my old roomie Ferrari Willi, AKA Ferrari Bubba.

I like your simple straight forward format.

Thanks

DOUG

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From: Steve Cook

To: DOUG

Cc: The FerrariList

Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:02 AM

Subject: Re: [Ferrari] How old is the Ferrari List?

Yup - Winter '95.  Started originally on a Majordomo list on a spare server at New Mexico Tech in Socorro.  It stayed there for about 6 years, until they "noticed" a non-school related email list :)

I think the first week it had about 100 subscribers.  And it grew steadily until about 2000-2001.  Then it leveled off at about 800-900.  Then I moved it to a "personal" server, still using Majordomo.

Then in 2003(maybe '04?) one of our previous members thought it would be a good idea to send spam reports on the 1 or 2 spams/month that made it through. Which, of course, put the whole server on several blacklists (which not suprisingly makes it a BIGGER target for spammers).  So I had to shut it down. 

It was down for a few months, until I moved it to a Mailman list server (*on somebody else's network*), so it's  about $150/year but it doesn't affect my professional servers.  Once this started, I sent an email to all the old subscribers with the new information - and only about 200 returned initially. It's grown slowly since then, and has mostly leveled off.

-steve

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Just curious...

Was under the impression it came out in 1995.

FG

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