I would be interested in a shirt too - as a loyal lurker since some time in the mid-90's
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From: "Carol White" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:57:20 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Almost old enough to vote - Hockey-L turns 20
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
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