Oh, that list brought back a few foggy memories, Bob. I also remember
NOTEBOOK and ...something strange about a blue chicken on IBM-MAIN.

I remember Stan Horwitz from the old HELP-LIST (I think that's what it was
called).

My former employer was not big on applications and students were not
allowed to use e-mail for the longest time.  When they hired me as a
consultant, I'll never forget when I talked the system admin into
installing listserv on VM -- the next morning he came running into my
office exclaming, "It's alive! It updated itself!".  Later, I installed it
on an SGI for campus use.

When I arrived at Queen's in 1997, listserv wasn't used much at all, so I
went through what Stan went through; trying to build a mail & web service
and convince folks that there was a lot of benefit.

Of course, now we have the opposite problem - I found out recently that
the average student arrives on campus and is immediately put on at least
8-10 mailing lists!  Times have sure changed.

--Trish



On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Bob Kaneshige wrote:

> Wow...do I feel old.  Like my kids always wrote on my birthday
> cards...."Happy Birthday you old dinosuar....older than dirt" .  I've been
> around for the last 20+ years...my VETTES list has been around since 1991,
> and Listserv has been on this campus since the beginning.  Remember the
> BB's, RELAY, Eric's CHAT, MAILER, Rice Mail, RSCS, VM/CMS...those were the
> good old days.
>
> Bob
>