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True so.  Da List was sheets of paper mailed via USPS in a flat rate envelope.    Rod and I still have several copies as they updated as people joined!    Rummy was one in a million.   

With Da List, you could call someone on the phone and get an answer right away......Rummy, Rik, Fred , MJM, Roger.....Kentucky lake get together so for us Midwesterners ...... Strictly Sail in Chicago  back in the days when Stan went.......just to get together with people you'd chatted with on the Web or the phone.......

Just waxing nostalgic tonight....it's cold in WI.....Blew is in storage until the frozen tundra warms up!

Remembering a Strictly Sail when Alex and Pamela came in from CO.......and the Windy City of Chicago was COLD that weekend.    Stan sending a rail for Slim back taped to Blew when we brought her back from her being refurbished in Edenton!

Living vicariously through Chris's summer travels.....and now his retirement journey!

Enough.....good night!

Mary 
Mary and Rod
St Croix river....WI



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> On Feb 9, 2016, at 8:36 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> 
> If there was a group of people, younger or not, that wanted to use Facebook as a way to talk about Rhodes 22 sailboats, they could be doing it now.  There’s nothing stopping them, except for the fact that I don’t believe they exist. 
> 
> My guess is that if this community were ever forced to move to a new venue of any sort, we’d lose at least 50% of the membership in the transition.  I consider that to be a conservative estimate.
> 
> Even if preserving the list meant moving to Facebook (which clearly it does not), there’s no reason that the archives couldn’t also be preserved.  
> 
> Recently, I’ve started walking my way through the archives from the very beginning, back in 2002.  One of the interesting things I found was that initially the term “Da List” did not refer to the Rhodes 22 email list.  It referred to a list of Rhodes 22 owners that was maintained by Rummy that he would print off and mail out on request.  I mean physically mail; you know, paper, envelopes, stamps.  It clearly goes back to the prehistoric days of SailNet.
> 
> Peter Nyberg
> No Boat Yet
> 
>> On Feb 9, 2016, at 6:14 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Using Facebook would attract a younger group.  In preserving da list, this
>> may be more important than preserving the archives.
>> 
>> Rick
> 
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