[Magdalen] Magdalen archaeology and lore--FYI

[Susan Hagen]

Bless all of these dear people

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 8:47 PM Brian Reid <brian at reid.org> wrote:
>
> In case anyone cares, some "where did Magdalen come from, and when?"
> information.
>
> The Magdalen email community was created in April 2002 by Molly Wolf,
> Gillian Barr, Mary Jane Anderson, and Jim Handsfield. It ran on a
> dedicated server computer that was purchased by Molly Wolf. The server
> was registered at Roger Stokes' home in England. All of the tech and
> legal work was done by Brian Reid, but he was intentionally not part of
> the Magdalen management because he couldn't be seen as taking sides in
> the ongoing disputes about Anglican mailing list communities.
>
> The magdalen at herberthouse.org mailing list was launched on 8 April 2002
> and announced on 10 April 2002. When Mary Jane died, Molly got drawn
> into personal issues, and Gillian into professional issues (and then
> seminary and ordination), Jim and Brian ran it. Mostly Jim. When Jim's
> wife Marcy developed a terrible and terminal illness, Brian took it over
> and has been the list administrator ever since. The server moved from
> the care of Roger Stokes in England into Brian's data center space in
> California once the chief antagonist died (no one except that person
> really cared where the server was or who ran it).
>
> Many people contributed significant labor to Magdalen, especially Peter
> Owen.  And maybe some folks I can't remember because they contributed
> while I needed to be invisible (before our antagonist died).
>
> I'm pretty sure I am the originator of the term "pub" for it, but 2002
> is a long time ago and my memory isn't what it used to be.
>


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