I remember joining the mail list many years ago, before I moved house 17
years ago. Probably around 1996 or 97. As I recollect I have bowed out when
other activities became pressing but re-joined again when I was free. In
this time I have enjoyed most of the interchanges, and on occasions when
technical questions appeared which I could answer (using my library
resources) I would contribute. At times I regret that I have only
occasionally entered pictures in the gallery, and similarly commented on
them.
I congratulate you [and your (s)elves] for the work you have put into this
list. I hope that it can continue for some time.
Best wishes to all for the Christmas season, and the New Year.
Jim Thyer
Point Lonsdale, Vic. Australia.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Davidhazy
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 2:22 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: PhotoForum turns 20 (or 21!) this week
Gentlemen,
Well, the actual records of the very first exchanges on the PhotoForum mail
list have been archived in a place I can not find right now.
I hope they still exist. But with various computer and memory crashes over
the years it is quite possible they are gone. The Wayback machine only works
(sometimes) for items that were on the web. Once the PF had a webpage it was
listed on the machine. But I think PF preceded that. Marilyn Dalrymple I
believe was an early subscriber.
In any case the list started as email exchanges only. I redistributed the
incoming mail myself. “By hand” so to speak. This lasted about 2 months or
so when the school installed the listserv program. I probably had much to do
to encourage this. This happened either in late 93 or late 94. I believe it
was 93. Once the listserv program took care of the redistribution things
became a bit more streamlined. We are using the same system today as then.
There was a move to move to a web based list but that seems to have fallen
by the wayside. I think list serve does not take up much space or cause
headaches to the computer admins.
Now the gallery was started I believe in 1996 - I was very unfamiliar with
HTLM programming and I struggled quite a bit trying to make it work. But
there was one among you (Whose name at this moment escapes me but who moved
from programming to photography … and maybe back to programming!) who wrote
the code that made the assembly of the photographs easier. And once I became
comfortable with it it became even easier. What used to take me maybe 1
1/2 - 2 hours now takes about 30 - 45 minutes - mostly because I set things
up as they come in instead of waiting for the collection as a whole. Plus
these days there are fewer photographs. In the beginning it was not unusual
to have 12 each week with 12 more waiting to be installed the following
week.
BTW, I unfortunately never had the assistance of the bevy of female students
who sign-off the gallery each week. I did want to make believe I did but,
alas, ’twas not so. It would have been fun!
So, I am sorry I can not be more specific and conclusive. But hard records
are nowhere to be found.
Andy
On Dec 20, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Eichhorn, Roger <eichhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Andy,
Please settle this thing once and for all.
Best, Roger
