Re: End of an era - F500 mailing list

Eric,

Your efforts and dedication over the years keeping the folks in the F440 / 
F500 community up todate and giving us our own forum are very much 
appreciated by me and - I'm sure  - all the others that enjoyed your 
electroic link to our alter egos !

All the best !

Gil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric D Christensen" <edc@...>
To: <f500@...>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 5:41 PM
Subject: [F500] End of an era - F500 mailing list

> Now that the F500 community has pretty much comfortably settled in it's 
> new
> home - the eformulacarnews.com forums, the old f500.org mailing list is
> nearly silent. Last moth 98% of the posts were just spam (which of course
> got filtered fro the list - I was the only one who had to wade though them
> all).
>
> Also, as most of you know the f500.org site has been badly broken for some
> time now. It was attacked by hackers a few months ago and I've never 
> really
> had the time to fix everything. On top of it all, the server that hosts
> f500.org is getting pretty old and really needs to be retired or replaced.
>
> So, with a bit of sadness I need to announce the end of the F500 mailing
> list. The list will go silent sometime in the next couple weeks. The 
> website
> will be rehosted on a shared server, but in a considerably trimmed down
> form. Since there has been very, very little contributed content over the
> years, and I no longer have the time to author content myself, it makes
> little sense to keep maintaining news, product reviews, etc. Classifieds 
> are
> handled by the forums now, so they will be gone as well. I will get the
> photo gallery back online on the new server. The server transition will 
> take
> few weeks.
>
> I will retain the F500.org Mailing List Archives (and actually fix them so
> they are searchable again) on the new site.
>
> I do want to thank all the people who have made the f500 mailing list a 
> fun
> place to hang out. I've enjoyed hosting it and do feel a bit sad to pull 
> the
> plug. But the end of and era also signals the beginning of a new era, and 
> I
> know that Rob Howden and his team at eformulacarnews.com will do a great 
> job
> continuing to support the F500 community.
>
> -----
> Eric D Christensen
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