Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing-L's 15th anniversary

[James Kacki (jimkacki]

FANTASTIC JOB ,FRED!  WELL DONE -AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!
James

On 1-Jan-08, at 9:37 AM, Fred H Olson wrote:

> Tho Cohousing-L actually started on October 21, 1992, it ramped up  
> slowly
> at first so I treat Jan 1, 1993 as the starting date of the list.  
> In the
> first 15 years there were 27,110 messages distributed. An overall  
> average
> of 165 messages per month in the last 5 years.
>
> As of Jan 2008 there were 1216 subscribers. 666 Digest mode, 550
> Non-digest mode. 388 of those are in No Mail mode, some because of
> problems with the address over the years, some so they can post from a
> second address and some so they can post but read via the archives. I
> do not know how many of each tho many are due to problems.
>
> The list has been at the address cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org since the
> move to the second host in 1996.
>
> The Cohousing-L Info page is evolving to be the onestop webpage for
> all Cohousing-L related links and information. In December 2002 the
> Info page became accessible via the URL: cohousing.org/cohousing-L
>
> Cohousing-L was started as a project of the Twin Cities Cohousing  
> Network
> which is minimally active now.  Cohousing-L is independent of but
> cooperates closely with The Cohousing Association of the United States
> (Coho/US)
>
> Cohousing-L's biggest problem over the years has been that it produces
> more email than some people can keep up with.  As of Nov 2006,  
> somewhat
> over half of subscribers are in digest mode. The Cohousing-L Summary
> mailing list ( http://l.cohousing.org/c-l-sum.htm ) was created around
> Jan. 2006.  It sends one short message PER WEEK that summarizes the
> messages distributed by cohousing-L in the past week. Each mailing  
> has a
> list of message subjects ("threads") and posters on that subject.  
> Messages
> themselves can be read via the archives.
>
> In March 2007 the Cohousing Wiki ( http://wiki.cohousing.org )was  
> started
> to provide a collaboratively developed and maintained reference web  
> pages
> about cohousing.  One main goal was to develop an archive of example
> documents such as Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CCRs).  
> The wiki
> could also have summaries and pointers to notable threads in  
> Cohousing-L.
> To date the Cohousing Wiki has not gotten much development effort.
> Volunteers are encouraged to check out this site.  About the same  
> time the
> Intentional Communities Wiki ( http://wiki.ic.org ) has been developed
> that has significant cohousing topics.  Booth use the Mediawiki  
> software
> that is used by the popular http://en.wikipedia.org/ general  
> collaborative
> online encyclopedia.
>
> This message is based on excerpts from the Cohousing-L history page
> http://l.cohousing.org/c-l-hist.htm
>
> Fred H. Olson , Cohousing-L founder and manager
>
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