[THIN] Re: How long?
- From: Jim Kenzig <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 18:10:55 -0500
Thanks Jan and Hector and the Steve's and all you pioneers out there. Who
remembers theThin Dinners at iForum? Who still owns a TheThin.net Archives and
Utilities CD from those years? (I still have all the master disks from all the
different versions I put out over the years) I corroborated with Tricerat one
year, Provision Networks (Emergent Online) one year and then on my own 2 years
so I think there are 4 different versions of the CD.
Jim Kenzig
jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.kenzig.com
On Mar 1, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Jan <tinybeetle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I thought I'd echo the thanks Jim. I've been on since the early days of not
> knowing anything. You and the helpful members of the list were a God-send. I
> truly appreciate what you've done for me and my career.
>
> Jan Broucinek, Arthur Rutenberg Homes
>
> ps. Yes, I've been at the same place the entire time the list has been active.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Minero, Hector B CIV NSWCDD, K55
> <hector.minero@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks again Jim for starting this great list. I believe I joined the list
> in 1997 or 98, so I am one of the first subscribers.
> I can't tell you how much this list has helped me throught the years. I am
> glad to see that the list is getting a lot more traffic in the last few
> months.
> I hope things aregoing well with you.
>
> ________________________________________
> Hector Minero
>
> From: Jim Kenzig
> Sent: Fri 3/1/2013 4:50 PM
>
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: How long?
>
> Mark,
> That is a GREAT question. First I can tell you that the Thin list never had
> any actual affiliation or spinoff from any company's list. I started the thin
> list around August of 1996 when I also started a local Citrix users group
> here in Cleveland Ohio. I know it is hard to believe anything this technical
> evolved from the Eastern US instead of silicon valley but it did. I got into
> Citrix/Terminal Services when the library I worked for was trying to come up
> with a way to give graphical Internet to our over 1/2 million patrons across
> our 28 branches. I devised a way to present a published desktop with Mozilla
> with Wyse Winterminals using Citrix Winframe 1.6 (Windows NT 3.5) As far as I
> know I was a Pioneer at the time and we were One of the first if not THE
> first library to do it on that large of scale.
>
> I created "The Unofficial Citrix Winframe" site in October of 1997 and
> started collecting email addresses from it for which I created a makeshift
> mailing discussion list on my own web server. I was already running another
> brain tumor website and a Brainstem Tumor list for a year by then. We then
> had the list on Onelist which turned into eGroups, I got thethin.net domain
> in March 1998 and tried to host it on my own servers again. I had a T1 line
> to my house to handle the traffic back then. It got to be a hassle after a
> while and around 2000 I went back to eGroups, Yahoo bought them and it became
> Thin at Yahoogroups until about 2006 when I switched the group over to
> Freelists.org where it has been ever since.
>
> I sold thethin.net to 2X, when I got pre pancreatic cancer in 2007 and could
> not manage it any longer. However I did not sell the list. I had a whipple
> procedure surgery the same surgery and at the same time Steve Jobs did in
> 2007. I was out of work for 7 months and was only able to work 3 more years
> after I did go back. I got diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in October 2010
> and retired a few months later because of my vision loss from the MS. So for
> the last several years I have been taking it easy. I still evaluated Server
> 2012, Windows 8 and Office 2013 before everyone else and keep up on things as
> best as I can even though I am retired.
>
> Here is a great excerpt from an email I sent in 2010 about how to get
> archives of the list:
> (oh and the answer to your question is the Thin list has been around for
> about 16 and 1/2 years!!)
>
> Hi All,
> With some changes Yahoo made recently to Yahoogroups, I have finally been
> able to open up for viewing/searching the Thin List archives that have been
> saving to Yahoogroups. Years ago (6/2002) I accidently set the list at Yahoo
> to private and was never able to change it back because of yahoo.
> It made it so no one could see the list, so I moved the list to
> Freelists,org. But THIN kept archiving and having messages saved at
> Yahoogroups.
>
> For those that don't know the Thin list has been around since early 1996. The
> Thin.net Thin list was first on online website called Onelist, which got
> purchased by Egroups whom got purchased by YahooGroups. The archives of the
> list pretty much stayed in place during these transitions.
> The archives at Yahoo date all the way back until April 2000! The archives
> from 1996-2000 exist on the rare Thin Net archives CD that I produced years
> ago, as I ran it on my own personal servers for those 3 years back in those
> days.
>
> Now EVERYONE can see, search and access the Yahoogroups Thin List archives!!
> Over 143,000 messages!!
> If you don't like the freelists archive search at
> //www.freelists.org/archive/thin this is a new option for you.
>
> So another version of the Thin List archives that dates back further than the
> Freelists archives is available here:
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thin/
>
> AND
> This also gives you an additional RSS feed to use for the list at
> http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/thin/rss
>
> (note that Freelists also has an RSS feed of the list at
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/freelists-feeds/thin )
>
> (ALSO Note you *can't *subscribe/unsubscribe or manage any of your settings
> to the Thin list or do anything at Yahoo other than look at the
> archives, you will still have to do all changes you want at Freelists.)
>
> Hopefully this will give you all another great resource and choice for
> finding answers from the archives. I am also hoping by opening the yahoo
> archives up that they will also get better indexed in the Yahoo search engine.
> Regards,
> Jim Kenzig
> Thin List Moderator
> http://www.kenzig.com/
>
>
>
> Jim Kenzig
> jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx
> http://www.kenzig.com/
>
> On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Michael Pardee <pardeemp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I remember it back around 1998 or so. My first memory of all of it
>> was thethin.net. The list saved my bacon a ton of times.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Delagrange, Scott
>> <scott.delagrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I've been a lurker since the mid 90's. I used to be heavily involved in
>>> Citrix when it was NT3.51 and found the list invaluable even though where I
>>> worked at the time used it in industrial settings rather than the typical
>>> office. Over the years I've learned a vast amount from the group and even
>>> though now I don't have any interaction with Citrix products, I keep my
>>> subscription just to keep somewhat knowledgeable of what the current
>>> technology is.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Scott DeLagrange
>>> TIBCO Architect
>>> Alcon Laboratories, Inc.
>>> 6201 South Freeway, Fort Worth, TX 76134-2099, USA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>>> Behalf Of Raffensberger, Stephen D
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:06 PM
>>> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [THIN] Re: How long?
>>>
>>> Our founder, Jim Kenzig will know. He doesn't monitor it much anymore due
>>> to health reasons. But if he sees this thread, he can give probably you the
>>> precise hour and day.
>>> It was kind of an offshoot from another list that had been supported by NCD
>>> corp.
>>>
>>> Steve Raffensberger
>>> Citrix Administrator
>>> Produban US
>>> sraffens@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>>> Behalf Of Holley, Mark
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:29 PM
>>> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [THIN] How long?
>>>
>>> How long has the Thin group been around?
>>>
>>> It seems like it has been a long time. 10 years? More?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark Holley
>>> Systems Architect"
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