Sinister: Happy 19th, Sinister

[Alan Holding]

Hi all,

Happy Birthday. I've got an intern with me who was 1 when this thing
started. I feel like going to the loo and having a bit of cry.

Love,

Alan

On 25 August 2016 at 05:47, Honey via Sinister <sinister at lists.missprint.org
> wrote:

> It's still the 24th August in some parts, so I'd like to wish those still
> with us a very happy 19th Sinister birthday. Given that I've just moved the
> list from a big whirring commercial server in America to a tiny computer
> you can hold in your palm, I should probably keep this short in case it
> falls flat on its face.
>
> If you *do* get this, a few things changed, but you can see it all on the
> new compact but still crappy webpage at:
>
> http://missprint.org/sinister/
>
> including news that we might be now the longest running mailing list for a
> band on the Internet (now that I see the longer-running XTC one moved to
> Facebook, not that I'm pleased about that or anything). We probably aren't.
> There's probably an older Grateful Dead one.
>
> Given that it's easier to leave now, some of you might. That's ok! But
> given that you don't have to do nonsense like send plain text anymore and
> you can move your email addresses etc via the web, you could stick around
> or even say hi sometime. Or just keep that cosy feeling that you're still a
> member of something that happened in 1997.
>
> As I said elsewhere, Sinister started as a mailing list about Belle and
> Sebastian, quickly became a mailing list about people who like Belle and
> Sebastian, and is now at the time of writing I suppose a mailing list about
> people with an affection for a mailing list about Belle and Sebastian. It's
> very quiet, but still here to thrill and/or embarrass you with your own
> past history. Sometime, have a peek in the archives to see what you like
> back then.
>
> Happy Birthday,
> Honey x
>
>
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