[LINK] LINK TECH IS DYING .. IDEAS ?

[Ivan Trundle]

> On 4 Nov 2024, at 4:26 pm, Antony Barry <antonybbarry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 9:50 PM Stephen Loosley <stephenloosley at zoho.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Dear Link,
>> 
>> & today a worthy linker writes. We need bold ideas !!
>> 
>> 
> That takes me back! When I first set up  the link list I ran it manually as
> an alias on a Sun unix workstation. It got too big too  fast (over 600
> members). Mailman then was a radical new idea! I'm not up with all the
> options that are available now…


Ah, the days of Sun Sparc Stations! My first decent computer to play with (these boxes are still in use today by military air traffic controllers, would you believe…).

Mailman has barely changed for many years, but especially so at ANU. It’s shuffled off into a distant corner of a dark server room.

Warmly
iT