Re: End of an era - F500 mailing list

Yeah...what they all wrote!  It's hard to add to the outpouring of  
sincere appreciation from the F500 community. Your list has been an  
invaluable communication tool, not only technically and socially  
informative, but often exciting and entertaining as well. I too prefer  
it over the forums where you have to dig and have saved many threads  
over the years that I often refer back to.

Eric, please accept my gratitude!

Regards,
Tony Jagodnik
NER SoloII FM 6 '87 KBS Mk3 F500

On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:54 PM, <dogill80@...> wrote:

> I've been a member of this list literally since day one (or maybe  
> day two). Your service provided the "glue" to bind us together,  
> broker car sales, publish race event logistics, host debates, and,  
> yes, even serve to publish a few eulogies.
>
> How can you thank someone for not charging for such a service as this?
>
> "Thank you" is all I have, Eric but, it is felt from the heart.
>
> Good luck, sir.
>
> Dave Gill
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric D Christensen"
<edc@... 
> >
> To: <f500@...>
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 4:41 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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