Re: [photo-3d] photo-3d changeover

["Norm in S.F." <normlehf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all your hard work, Bob, and welcome, Paul

Norm Lehfeldt

Bob Wier wrote:
> 
> After some 8 (depending on when you start counting) years,
> I've decided to pass along the running of
> photo-3d to Paul Talbot.
> 
> A brief history of the list...
> 
> Photo-3d was started in the mid/late '80s by Tom Neff, but it went
> silent for a couple of years. It was re-activated by John Bercovitz.
> However, eventually security concerns about computing facilities
> on government systems forced him to give it up. I took it over
> and continued running it under listserv/listproc at the various
> universities where I've taught. The free version of listserv had
> to be fairly heavily customized in order to get it to work correctly
> for our purposes (some of you may remember the mail loops,
> and errors in rejecting legitimate postings). About
> 1996 buy/sell volume on the list increased to the point that
> complaints brought about the creation of sell-3d for commerce,
> tech-3d for highly technical subjects, and the incorporation of
> sd-3d which originated in San Diego.
> 
> In recent years the growth of the internet has provided e-bay
> to bring together far-flung buy/sell members of sell-3d with off-list
> persons, and the emergence
> of commercial mailing list institutions which have eliminated the need
> for high speed internet access plus customized programming in order to
> run a list as far as the moderator is concerned.
> 
> Additionally, in the last year I have assumed duties of chair of the
> Computer Science department at the college here, plus having some
> concerns about keeping the list running during the summer and at other
> times I'm not on campus. Lastly, some thing said on the list in the
> last 6 months are liable to "spook" the administration of the
> college here, and I'd like not to be put in the position of having to
> defend the existance of the list (or worse).
> 
> Through the years, a number of people have provided invaluable assistance
> in the running of the list. Many thanks George, John, and the others
> whom I've forgotten to mention.
> 
> At some point in the future, I'll have the keyword searchable archives
> of my years running photo-3d back online, and I'll also be lurking
> in the background.
> 
> THANKS!
> 
>               Bob Wier
>      mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    15:16 GMT Wednesday, March 28, 2001
>     Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
>  keeper of the Overland-Trails mailing list
>      and the USA GPS Waypoint server
> 
> 
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