I should have also said that I'll take 2 if a new batch is created.

Eric

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Eric Maiwald wrote:

> I still have my sweatshirt from way back when.
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Carol White wrote:
>
>> I'll need more than two votes to get the artistic juices flowing again!!!
>> 
>> But if there are some serious folks out there I will do some cost estimates
>> and see what I can do.
>> 
>> 
>> Carol
>> GO Gophers!!!
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:32 PM, TODD NIELSON 
>> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>> 
>>> I'll take one!
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Bob Roy" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:49 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Almost old enough to vote - Hockey-L turns 20
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> How about a t-shirt sale to celebrate the event?
>>>> 
>>>> Bob Roy, UW Alum
>>>> 
>>>> ---- Wayne Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Today is the 20th anniversary of Hockey-L!   Twenty years ago,  Mike
>>> Machnik
>>>>> and a great team of fans from around college hockey, having created the
>>>>> aptly named the College_Hockey mailing list a couple of years earlier,
>>>>> turned hosting over to "maine.edu", later to be "lists.maine.edu".
>>>>> "college_hockey" grew out "news"/"NetNews" hockey groups that had more
>>> than
>>>>> a little childish ranting and was dominated by pro hockey discussions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> With Listserv as the distribution software and lots of energy from many
>>>>> people, Hockey-L grew rapidly from the several dozen core contributors
>>> to
>>>>> many thousands of readers at its peak.  Hockey-L had about 3000
>>> subscribers
>>>>> and half a dozen or so redistributions, mostly on various campus
>>> NetNews
>>>>> groups. At this peak, we had hundreds of posts per day in-season.  I'd
>>> spend
>>>>> a couple of hours per day putting together a daily compendium, leaving
>>> out
>>>>> the crud ... that was the only way to keep many of the readers we were
>>>>> trying to attract (movers and shakers, administrators, coaches,
>>> players).
>>>>> My secretary would put together a weekly compendium of posts she
>>> thought
>>>>> Shawn Walsh might want to see, and whenever we played a team we didn't
>>> know
>>>>> much about, I'd put together a packet on them for Shawn.  He'd read
>>> them
>>> on
>>>>> the bus/plane a week ahead of the game.  For other stories and
>>>>> recollections, see the Hockey-L archives at
>>>>> http://lists.maine.edu/archives/hockey-l.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Today, the redistributions are gone and Listserv creates its digests
>>>>> automatically for those that want it, and in several formats ... but
>>> with
>>>>> the decrease in volume of posts and with the filtering enjoyed by most
>>>>> people's e-mail client, it's hardly needed.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some of the college hockey web sites of today have writers that once
>>> wrote
>>>>> on Hockey-L.  It's great to see they found a way to make some money
>>> while
>>>>> exercising their talent for writing and passion for college hockey.
>>> There
>>>>> probably isn't a D-I rink in the land without a few current or former
>>>>> Hockey-Lers in attendance. ;-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers, Wayne
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Carol S. White
>> * ~ * ~ * ~ *
>> There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of
>> power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the
>> messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable
>> love. -  Washington Irving
>> 
>> "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams
>> shall never die. " - Edward Kennedy
>> 
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> Eric Maiwald                                         So Many Hobbies,
> [log in to unmask]                                    So little time
>
> "A compromise which results in a half-step toward evil is all wrong."
>              --Theodore Roosevelt
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Eric Maiwald                                         So Many Hobbies,
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"A compromise which results in a half-step toward evil is all wrong."
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