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