Alberg30.org Mailing Lists

There are were several mailing lists available on this site. If you don't know, a mailing list is bit of software that turns email into a group discussion. You subscribe to a mailing list like you would subscribe to a magazine. Like a magazine, you will receive issues, but by email rather than postal mail. The difference between the mailing list and a magazine, however, is that these issues are written by other subscribers of the mailing list, people just like you. You can write issues, too. In fact, you're encouraged to do so.

Unfortunately, my hosting provider has decided to quit supporting mailing lists. Given past difficulties with commercial mailing list providers, and the reduced interest in email, I've not chosen to try to continue supporting this feature.

public-list@alberg30.org

The Alberg 30 public mailing list was a friendly place where Alberg 30 owners and other enthusiasts gather to discuss things such as boats, cruising, and Carl Alberg. Most of the discussions tend to center around maintenance and upgrade issues. That's not surprising; this was a group of boat owners. It was also a good place to ask questions about the boat, or to ask about available boats for sale.

The mailing list started out on a service called onelist, which was later acquired by egroups. When they started adding web bugs to the emails to track who opened them, I dropped that service and started running my own mailing list using the opensource group email manager mailman. As much as possible, the old message archives were incorporated in the public-list archives, but those archives were not archived on the Wayback Machine.

The Alberg 30 member list was restricted to members of the Alberg 30 Association. This list was much less active than the public-list. This provided a place for discussions that are more sensitive, pertain only to Association members, or perhaps for people feeling a little shy.

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