Today is the 10th Birthday of this mailing list! Below is part of the first message I sent through to the mailing list. It was initially hosted on my $2000 Pentium 386/33 with 4M of memory and 120M disk running a very early version of the free, open source operating system Linux and connected to the internet over a 56kb dialup, usually in the evenings after work. ---------- Marc Nozell (nozell@wildcat.MV.COM) Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:41:40 -0500 Hi, I'm the gen-nys-l mailing list owner. At the request of Jerry Dafoe <jcdafoe@ix.netcom.com>, I've created the GEN-NYS-L mailing list for the discussion of genealogical research in New York State. ---------- Since then it moved to RootsWeb.com in 1996 and has had over 27,721 messages distributed to subscribers. Thanks to RootsWeb.com for supporting and allowing it be so productive. As of this evening, there are 423 subscribers to GEN-NYS-L and 208 subscribers to GEN-NYS-D. Congratulations everyone! -marc GEN-NYS list admin -- Marc Nozell (marc@nozell.com) http://www.nozell.com/blog/