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Reply To: | VICUG-L: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List |
Date: | Mon, 2 Feb 1998 03:10:21 -0500 |
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Well, one year ago on this date it seems that Gregory Rosmaita was busy
configuring the listserv options for a new mailing list called vicug-l!
It was a project of a newly formed users group in New York City, but in a
few weeks expanded membership to incorporate the announcement lists from
groups in Chicago and Pittsburgh.
I would guess that with the present total of 174 people on the list, most
of the list subscribers are outside those three cities.
We've had some interesting discussions / debates in the past 365 days and
plenty of interesting and useful postings.
I'd like to remind new and even ancient subscribers that you can review
previous postings by visiting the URL
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html There you can do some
pretty fancy searching and manipulation of those old messages. Gregory
even made a more speech friendly version of the page, but I don't have
that address handy.
For those who find the WWW and forms too complicated, it is possible to
get the archives via e-mail.
Send the command to the listserv address which is :
[log in to unmask]
All commands go to that address, so don't reply to this message which uses
the vicug-l posting address or you'll embarrass yourself in front of 173
readers.
To continue, in the body of the message to listserv, put the command:
get vicug-l log9703
which would return you all messages posted for March 1997. You could
change the YY MM numbers to get all postings up to the present log9802
file.
While many of the old messages are meeting announcements, minutes and
useless babble, you might come upon some of those "oldies but goodies" !
I'll include some of the subject lines from messages posted in April 1997
below to spark your interest in list history.
Thanks to all for participating, co-operating, tolerating items you might
deem useless and in general making vicug-l what it is at the tender age of
one year.
- Mark
Subjects from April 1997 vicug-l messages:
A direct action guide
ALL: newspaper article about someone familiar to this list
EDU: Netsurfing Without a Monitor - Scientific American articles
Electronic text titles from RFB&D
PA: Carnegie Library makes reading machines and CCTVs available
PA: RIS fund raiser features play about blind woman
PA: recent Post Gazette article about Willie Wilson and VIPACE
TECH: JFW for Windows NT announced
TECH: browser testers wanted and digital audio books to be
TECH: computer news from CompuServe's Executive News Service
Tech: Musical Automatic Teller Machines
Theater By The Blind
Voice input/output organizers from Sharper Image
Web etext collection on Java and access
act: A guide to disability rights advocacy
act: Letter from Lotus to Education department
act: Using Cyberspace: Getting Active Online
all: tech: latest files on Blinklink
all: tech: web: openweb-l
chi: automated fares on the c. t. a.
digital health care
disabled man's plea for help heard accross ocean
e-mail directory national braille press
edu: Tech Equity for Disabled on Horizon
edu: ncd rehabilitation report
edu: special education: a system disabled?
edu: survey on business users of net
edu: web accessability at libraries
edu: what kind of computer to buy?
general: nontech: making money accessable
patents: a new kind of refreshable braille
profile of Greg VanDerHyden
service provision vs. civil rights
tech: another release delay for windows 97
tech: interactive media goes bust
tech: internet communities
tech: net to phone product review
tech: new advances in dictation software
tech: comming soon, eletronic postage stamps
Announcing dev-access mailing list
CHANGE: QBasic - Programming Language
Fw: Treasury may change money for blind Americans (fwd)
LC Digital Library Competition winners
Senate Guide Dog Story and Web Sites
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