[78-L] Oldtimers query

[ron at fial.com.invalid]

The 78-L list started in 1992.   Douglas Elliott started it and it was hosted on the Cornell 
University's email server.  At some point later  either Columbia kicked it off their mainframe 
computer or it became too time consuming for Doug, and he got me to take it over.  I think it 
initially used themainframe Listserv mailing list software written by Eric Thomas, later ported 
to Unix machines by L-Serve. Doug E. would have most information about it and the 
beginnings.  


Initially I moved the list to various maillist server companies, some were very hard to deal 
with and put advertising in the emails, so in 2000 or so I moved it to a Red Hat LInux 
machine with Majordomo mail list software, running with the Sendmail mail server.  

Later when Sendmail has some serious security problems and became too complex to 
maintain, I moved it to SusE Linux running the Mailman mail-list software, running with the 
very secure Postfix mail server.   It currently exists that way as a SusE Linux 'virtual Machine' 
running on an i7 server in my company's server room. 

 I contribute the expenses for power, yearly Domain name registration, DNS services, IP 
connectivity, etc.  as a gift to the members.  I do not need any contributions or anything like 
that --I have tried to stay true to the original purpose of the list.   The entire machine is 
backed up weekly along with other servers to hard disks,  the backups are rotated through a 
local banks vault,  So the last two weeks of backups are always stored underground.  I 
learned to do this the hard way.

I do have a collection of about 7,000  78s, all shelved, takes up and entire half of my two car 
garage.  I have two Victorolas and a nice Orthophonic, and Dual and Audio Technica 
turntables with cartridges and 78 styli.  I am an electronics designer first, but my wife and I 
are past choral singers, done musicals and operas, even toured the far east in a USO show.  
We enjoy all types of music (well, country not so much :)

Regards,
   Ron Fial
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On 3 Apr 2019 at 13:04, Kurt Nauck wrote:

> 
> It appears that I have only been on 78-L since 1998. Can any of you 
> older codgers tell me when 78-L began and if Cornell was the original host?
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