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Michael,<br>
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Thanks. I appreciate the kind words. And I also know I could do
better. Thank you as well for helping out with the admin work for
the OSList.<br>
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I couldn't see an easy way to see the count via the Archives. But
looking at my own stash of the emails, I counted 42.9k messages
since the first one in December of 1996 back in the old Boise State
University LISTSERV (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:OSLIST@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU">OSLIST@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU</a>)
days.<br>
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Harold<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/28/21 4:48 PM, Michael Herman via
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<div dir="auto">Great job, and big thanks Harold. You’re the only
reason the list still exists in this open, free, independent
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<div dir="auto">And just so everyone can notice the scale of the
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<div dir="auto">Cuz it’s not just about updating or swapping email
tools, folks. Harold has managed this so that we still have and
can search every message ever sent through the list. Amazing!</div>
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<div dir="auto">I know we passed 30000 some time ago but couldn’t
guess what the total is now. I can’t figure where to look it up
anymore. Do you have that number, Harold?</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks, Michael </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at
08:40 Birgitt Williams via OSList <<a
href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I love the
simplicity that has been maintained for our email list,
and the independence to the extent possible for us to be
in a platform that supports us. Thank you for your work
on this over many years, and also to those who preceded
you.</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">A super super
simple way to pay attention to the list, and to follow
threads really really easily is to use the GREAT feature
of the archives <a
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org"
rel="noreferrer"
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>.
Every post gets placed in the archives, the archives are
searchable. When something that is posted catches my
attention, it is easy to go to the archives to see what
I may have missed in the thread and also simultaneously
by topic access what has been discussed in relation to
the topic over the years. </div>
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Harold Shinsato<br>
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