[Magdalen] testing w/ a new ISP

[Gail Edwards]

I read, I pray as requested, I sometimes wholesale delete, but I don't think of myself as lurking - more sitting the the corner with my glass of single malt, letting the conversation eddy around me. I'm usually many days behind in reading, so the conversation has usually moved on by the time I might have something to say.

But I'd miss you all after the more than 20 years that I've been subscribed to the various iterations of email list Anglican-land, from Big-A, St. Sam's, St. Bede's, to Magdalen.

Gail, on a train between NY and Boston as we speak



> On Dec 10, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Capers Limehouse <capers.limehouse at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I have one more course in this CDSP grad program I'm in. After that maybe I can be less lurky.
> Capers
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Dec 10, 2014, at 12:26 AM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, Jim, thank you for that history.  I agree with you, Christopher, that
>> this is my cyber home pub.
>> 
>> My wish is that more lurkers post.  We're good company, but it would be
>> awesome to hear more voices in the pub.
>> 
>> 
>> +++
>> Grace & peace,
>> jon
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> -------------------------------------
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> Christopher Hart
>>> 
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>>>