fogo: the Friends of Gerald Oskoboiny mailing list

What it is

fogo is a mailing list for my friends to hang out on and discuss things that interest us. See recent messages sent to the list for a sample of the traffic.

Everyone I know is welcome to join the list, and even people I don't know are welcome if you think we have similar interests. To join, use the web interface or send "subscribe" in the subject of a message to fogo-request@impressive.net.

I have a few specific purposes in mind for this list:

provide an easy way to archive interesting articles (they'll probably disappear from their original locations on the Web due to clueless information providers)
share interesting bits/articles with others, on topics including:
- technology
- the net
- investing
- interesting new business models
- famous hackers
- cool toys
- life
- whatever else we find interesting
help merge the various communities of friends I have

Before you post

Note that:

everything you post will be archived online and visible to everyone in the world, forever. Your children and grandchildren will be able to use advanced data mining software to find all the messages where grampa used naughty language or posted offensive jokes, so write accordingly.
spammers will probably harvest your email address from the archives. If you have a lame email setup at work, you might want to arrange for a free email address elsewhere to be used for this list. (I can give you an alias on impressive.net if you like.)

To post to the list, send a message to fogo@impressive.net.

There is also an IRC component to fogo, channel #fogo on irc.impressive.net, with an accompanying weblog. If you don't have an IRC client handy, you can use a lame CGI interface that I set up.

Background

"fogo" is a ripoff of FoRK, Friends of Rohit Khare. FOIB is another spinoff of FoRK.

See also: archives of traffic to date, my home page, or notes on my web site.

Last modified: $Date: 2003/10/05 00:40:18 $
Gerald Oskoboiny, <gerald@impressive.net>