Eric, thanks for your efforts. I have been caring for very sick wife who died of cancer mid-December of last year. I still managed to monitor the F-500 web site a couple of times a week. I will miss it ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric D Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 5:41 PM 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! ***
