The Alfa Mailing List predates the Alfa BB by a good number of years. Ken Stevenson, in a recent post, remembers that the Alfa list was a spinoff of the even earlier Italian Car List. I had forgotten that. When the Alfa list started, web bulletin boards as we know them now didn't exist or at least weren't that common. I seem to remember some unpleasantness surrounding sharing email address lists when the BB was a start-up (or up-start) and we didn't know what it was all about. The Alfa List is a tool of the email generation while the BB is a tool of the WWW generation. Both have their place and have value, although the traffic on the List has lessened greatly since the advent of the BB with its ability to post pictures, maintain threads, and perform searches, etc. The List used to be THE place to go for the on-line Alfa community. The best thing about the List is that you can still ask a question and get a pretty intelligent and well-focused answer.
Best, Bob A. Kenosha, WI -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Redden Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 7:24 PM To: Eric J Russell Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [alfa] Re: alfa-digest V10 #2491 I don't think there is bad blood and no reason not to co-exist, it is just that I for one find the BB with the visuals a better interface and more modern. Kevin On Wed 12/7/11 Dec 7 6:20 PM, Eric J Russell wrote: >> I'm guessing the culprit can be named with 6 letters...a l f a b b. Can >> post pictures, can look at history easily and search to find what you >> are looking for. I find this much more useful. >> >> Kevin > > Can't the BB & the Digest co-exist? I do not know the history of > either but 'reading between the lines' makes me think there is some > 'bad blood' between the two. > > Eric Russell > Mebane, NC > http://home.mebtel.net/~ejrussell > -- > to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi > or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
