Thanks Ken.
Pat, K9JAUAt 02:00 AM 2/10/2014, you wrote:
>As the owner of the list, which I have been for something close to twenty
>years now in various places, let me say a few things, in no
>particular order of importance.
>
>First, we have over 230 current active members. That probably comes as a
>surprise to a lot of you, I myself didn't even realize it had gotten that
>high because I hadn't looked at it in quite a while. Most of these people,
>presumably, wouldn't be here if they weren't happy with the list, at least
>for the most part, as it presently exists. Now, I will certainly grant you
>that those who post to it and run into some unique difficulties when doing
>so deserve to have those concerns dealt with if at all
>possible, as a list without its contributors is nothing more than a group
>of email addresses. But it is also true that those experiencing these
>issues do not make up the majority of the posters to the list, let alone
>the majority of its subscribers.
>
>Second, but related to the above, I personally am probably not going to be
>inclined to deal with the logistics of moving that many people from one
>list host  to another, at least not right now. Both my parents are in
>something less than stellar health these days, and that's taking up a lot
>of my time, over and above just the normal obligations of life. This list
>is certainly important to me, I wouldn't have kept it going for as long as
>I have if it wasn't, but it has to take its place in terms of priorities,
>and again, right now, with it running at least reasonably well, it's just
>not that high in the stack. Likewise, I personally am not particularly
>inclined to move it to one of the typically-suggested locations for such
>things, like Yahoo or Google, both of which present various access issues
>of one sort or another, in addition to mining your personal data for
>all it's worth, and/or selling/trading/giving it away to most
>anyone who will take it. I know privacy is becoming more and more of a
>foreign concept these days, but the privacy of my list subscribers is
>still more important to me than that.
>
>Having said all this, however, the concerns about message formatting and
>the like are also important, and have never not been so. I would be
>glad to hear privately from anyone who owns a listserv list on the
>icors.net domain who has been able to find a way around them, and in fact
>would hope they would have already been in touch if there was one, but we
>shall see. Likewise, if anyone knows of such a person, again put them in
>touch and I'll do what I can. And most definitely, anyone who wants to
>start something somewhere else is more than welcome to do so, I certainly
>don't have a monopoly on lists for blind hams or anyone else. I would,
>however, ask that you do me and the list the courtesy of not trying to
>organize it here. Take it private all you want, but not here,
>please. I think both myself and the list deserve at least that much
>consideration.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Ken,
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