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ivn...@gmail.com: Oct 16 05:20AM -0700
Hi! This is a bit historical. On my computer I still have TBL digest
emails from about 2001 to 2011, around 2.5k digests in total. I'm trying
to decide whether to keep or delete them. Are the old archives available
somewhere? Is Steve Manes still here? What happened to magpie.com?
Should we even try to preserve this slice of history or just let it go?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Ivan
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"er...@habbinga.com" <erikha...@gmail.com>: Oct 16 07:29AM -0600
I should have all the ones from me and Kevin’s run, pre Steve, and I think
Steve had them all on magpie. I’m pretty sure Steve is still around. My
copies of the old emails might be online, I’ll check.
Erik
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Mike Harrison <mh0...@gmail.com>: Oct 16 01:53PM -0400
Steve Manes is admin of The Bottom Line group on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/tbl.bass/members/
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 9:29 AM er...@habbinga.com <erikha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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Steve Manes <steve...@gmail.com>: Oct 16 11:04AM -0700
Still here. TBL was moved to a Facebook group, The Bottom
Line:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/tbl.bass/
MAGPIE.COM was sold to a British record company a couple of years ago.
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Steve Manes <steve...@gmail.com>: Oct 16 11:10AM -0700
The archives on Google Groups are on the Google Groups home page however
there wasn't much traffic in GG.
I have the pre-GG TBL messages going back to Jan 1996 in a MySQL table.
Anyone who wants it is welcome to a copy.
-S
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Edwin Hurwitz <ed...@indra.com>: Oct 16 12:28PM -0600
> The archives on Google Groups are on the Google Groups home page however there wasn't much traffic in GG.
> I have the pre-GG TBL messages going back to Jan 1996 in a MySQL table. Anyone who wants it is welcome to a copy.
> -S
I’d like a copy.
Hm. January 1996. That’s when Fingers was letting me have it, accusing me of all kinds of wonderful things. Ah, memories…..
I have a few digests from 1995.
Edwin
PS. I still have the masters from the TBL compilations.
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Toby Gray <life...@gmail.com>: Oct 16 12:33PM -0700
Carol Kate's posts would be worth having in a file. I saved a few :-)
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TR Kelley <trk...@gmail.com>: Oct 16 10:51PM -0700
That was fun times. Dunno why we can't make it go again, but it feels like
when the internet took a step forward, all the little mom&pop formats died
and the big shiny audio/video stuff took up all the previously intimate
conversational space where long thoughtful paragraphs once grooved. I
fondly remember TBL and my 9.6 dial-up connection. :)
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Bill Rizzi <ri...@softserv.com>: Oct 16 10:56PM -0700
Facebook => slow death of email lists.
Z
On 10/16/18 10:51 PM, TR Kelley wrote:
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Steve Manes <st...@stevemanes.com>: Oct 17 02:18AM -0400
It was tough maintaining the craggy mailing list software, the updates,
the bounces, the increasing stream of spammers and the approvals and the
old Magpie listserve software couldn't support multi-media or even rich
text, which got to be a problem too because MIME posts were bouncing back.
But people were also losing interest in mailing lists. I used to run
seven lists, from TBL to Triumph Motorcycles, Motorcycle Safety to a NYC
Sushi list. In its hey day, we had 1800 TBL subscribers of which about
5% were active posters (that's a good average). But as the lists started
to die of loneliness I shut them down as people fled to dedicated URLs
and forum software elsewhere. TBL was the last man standing.
When I got a consulting job with a security clearance I was "persuaded"
to shut down all remote access to the server so I moved TBL to Google
Groups where i had to restart the subscriber database from scratch.
After a couple of months of posting "Resubscribe now!" messages on the
list only about 150 out of 1600+ has resubbed. Ten years later, it's up
to 586 but few people post to it.
To be honest, TBL on Facebook is very slow as well. There's way too much
competition for bass pages there with lots of granularity like dedicated
pages for Pre-1960 Fender Basses.
When I have some time I'll move the TBL digest SQL table to Dropbox and
post a public link to it for anyone who wants to build a reader or even
restart the mailing list.
-S
On 10/17/18 1:51 AM, TR Kelley wrote:
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