Count me in as well...  (a less impressive one for us lurkers perhaps?) not
sure a) how many years or b) how many id's...  possibly due to c) being too
close to the "retired" category!  :-)   Congrats to all the list admins!

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of TODD NIELSON
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Almost old enough to vote - Hockey-L turns 20

I'll take one!

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From: "Bob Roy" <[log in to unmask]>
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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