This is awesome news, thanks for your work Culf-Jethro! And thanks to everyone else still being around since the early 90s (or having dropped in later but staying on). "Let's listmail like it's 1991!" /Kristoffer On Mon, 11 Jul 2022, 13:59 J R Binks, <jrbinks+klf@gmail.com> wrote:
All,
Many, many, many years ago, by which I mean about Nov 1991, I operated the first internet KLF interest list (under my still-occasionally-used pseudonym "Culf"). It was crude, just a roughly-two-weekly newsletter compiled by me and sent to an ever-increasing Bcc: list of addresses with notes and contributions being sent from all over the world.
Anyway, you don't need the gory details, but I had to give it up just as the KLF appeared to be imploding in May 1992, and Lazlo took over the mantle in November, making it a "proper" internet discussion mailing list. It will maybe be interesting to look back and try and document that history some time ...
To the present day, as has been discussed, Lazlo is no longer really active, and the list has been in sore need of some moderation lately. Mike Brown and I have attempted to reach out to Lazlo, who I've occasionally exchanged odd words with over the years, but nothing substantial. Anyway, he hasn't responded, so with the help of the folks at xmission, I've been made (potentially interim) list owner.
There are various list matters to be handled, such as pages of held postings. Some will be spam, some might be so old they are not worth forwarding on now, and some will be worth releasing. But note they may be quite old so you may start to see messages relating to conversations from a very long time ago!
I've updated the list description a bit: https://lists.xmission.com/postorius/lists/klf.mailman.xmission.com/
The list itself isn't exactly super-active these days. For better or worse, most of the action happens in the Facebook groups. I know some here want nothing to do with that! Not yet clear if additional moderators are needed, but drop me a private note to express an interest. Previous list moderation experience always helpful for that not always necessary. Perhaps this list no longer really serves a useful purpose, but at least now if that's the case we have the ability to put it to rest with some dignity. Or, if we still want it, let's try and get it a bit active.
If you think anything needs attending/updating/whatever, let me know. There were some issues with the archives but I think they got resolved a couple of years ago, on the other hand the archives may not even be complete.
Jethro (or, as in the old days, Culf).
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