[TheForge] History of The Forge/OT

[Chuck Robinson]

Hey Terry,
If you can't find a better source I have a saved file of Outlook Express e
mails that runs from Nov 97 to Oct 99 and has about 8400 emails mixed up in
them: including The Forge, knife list and gun list e mails. Te forge files
have gaps in them  spanning several Hospital Vacations. I also don't have
any idea how to separate out the forge files from the rest.

I think David's idea sounds good, but speaking from experience as the News
letter editor for Gulf Breeze, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of
getting any archived forge list info into articles for news letters unless
David is volunteering to do it himself..
I'd be really appreciative if you could just keep hammering away at your
present project.
Chuck
.----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Mudge" <dave at magichammer.net>
To: "'terry l. ridder'" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>; "'Sponsored by ABANA'"
<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:35 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] History of The Forge/OT


> Speaking for ABANA, I appreciate the effort that you are putting in to
this.
> I can also tell you that "ABANA" as an entity is not going to archive the
> old records from TheForge. I had to fight just to get funding for
TheForge.
>
> I personally wonder if the effort would be more productive if someone went
> through those "archives" (considering that they can actually be found and
> downloaded into a readable form)and put together articles for chapter
> newsletters, or AR or Hammers Blow or MetalsmithingHow-To dot com, and
then
> many people would have access to the valuable information contained
within.
>
> TheForge serves about 350 people at any given time. Not more than 20
people
> are going to go to the trouble to download the archives once they are
> updated. ABANA has 5000 +/- members and 3 to 5 people read each copy of
the
> magazines. There are another 6000 - 10000 chapter members that are neither
> ABANA members nor TheForge members. The ABANA web site gets millions of
> visitors a year. If articles were put together, there are several good
> websites that would carry them including mine. That way the information
> could be easily accesses by millions of people around the world, and isn't
> that what we are really all about? The dissemination of information.
>
> dave mudge
> dave at magichammer.net
> http://www.magichammer.net
> http://www.metalsmithinghowto.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: On Behalf Of terry l. ridder
> (SNIP)
> it would have been nice if abana had had the foresight to archive
> theforge over the years. that unfortunately did not happen. perhaps now
> abana will begin to archive the qth.net epochs.
> (SNIP)
>
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