Eric, I think loosing the F500 Mailing List is a case where progress is not an improvement. Sure the eformulacarnews.com forums are well organized and easy to use once you get there, but it takes too much effort to march through the hoops to get there and see what's going on. I think many of us more passive members of the F500 community will lose touch with the everyday communication. I have already missed your list server during the past year and don't feel I'll ever be as connected again, just because I'm too busy/lazy to get on the forum regularly.
Good luck and thank you for all the hard work over the years. Eric Dean SCR #43 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric D Christensen Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 5:42 PM To: [email protected] 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 ________________________________ FormulaCar Magazine - A Proud Supporter of Formula 500 The Official Publication of Junior Formula Car Racing Subscribe Today! www.formulacarmag.com or 519-624-2003 _________________________________ _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
