[Magdalen] testing w/ a new ISP

[Christopher Hart]

Thanks for this history lesson, Jim. It is exactly what recall knowing,
although I was never on Anglican-L and only marginally on St. Sams. My
first real participation (other than the Bishops/Deputies list that Louie
Crew created) was on St. Bedes. Coincidentally it was
Louie who introduced me to that list. When it began to collapse someone
(Raewynne Whiteley, I think) pointed me to Magdalen for which I have been
eternally grateful. This is my cyber home pub.

On Tuesday, December 9, 2014, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at icloud.com>
wrote:

> Access to the pub was never by invitation or application only.  It’s just
> that we were small and didn’t broadcast that we were there.
>
> Maybe it’s time to recite some of the history.
>
> As most remember, it all started with Anglican-L hosted by American
> University.  Charles Smith was the owner operator.
>
> When American University decided to no longer host Anglican-L, Charles
> started up his own ISP, Dragon.com <http://dragon.com/>, and created St.
> Sam’s.  As has been noted, there were some difficulties with the
> management, and St. Bede’s was created, this time with a ‘vestry’ to govern
> the list.  The problem was that the vestry members came from all over, and
> rarely were they all on line at the same time.
>
> That, too, descended to having a lot of petty scraps, and when it looked
> like the list was going to fail, several of us (Molly Wolf, Mary Jane
> Anderson of blessed memory, Gillian Barr, and I decided to set up a new
> list.  After a lot of discussion we chose the concept of a pub.  Tony
> Clavier provided the Anglican underpinnings for us, and we decided to name
> it Magdalen’s Rose and Compass, Magdalen being George Herbert’s mother, and
> the compass from the Anglican Communion logo.
>
> Molly paid a small amount for a server that Brian Reid set up for us.  He
> also guided us in the best ways to operate an email list, and following his
> guidance we created the publican system with three publicans (Mary Jane,
> Gillian, and me - Molly opted out).  Each publican would have equal
> authority although I took the title of publican with Mary Jane and Gillian
> taking the titles of assistant publicans.  In reality we were equals.
>
> We never looked to be a large list, but one where no topic was proscribed,
> but where any discussion would be carried out respectfully, following the
> statement derived from the Baptismal Covenant:  Strive for justice and
> peace among all people and respect the dignity of every human being.  That
> turned out to be a pretty good formula.  We had our trials from time to
> time, but Maddies has remained a safe place to stop in, have a libation of
> one’s choice, and there the company.
>
> Chad and Sally are doing an excellent job of maintaining the list with
> their own ways that they’ve developed.
>
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> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>
> Jim Handsfield
> jhandsfield at att.net <javascript:;>
>
> > On Dec 9, 2014, at 9:15 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Then someone told me about Maddie's, which at that point was by
> invitation or application only.
>
>

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Christopher Hart

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