[sdiy] Happy 30th birthday Synth-DIY

[sleepy_dog at gmx.de]

Happy Birthday from me, too ;)

On 31.05.2025 10:59, Sean Ellis via Synth-diy wrote:
> Pretty awesome to keep this type of forum around, simple emails work 
> much better than some of the current trends. Here's to another 30!


Agreed, I like that this exists, simple & effective. Though I've been 
only lurking & reading here and there, for the past years, not doing 
much synthing lately (I went all acoustic). But it's still interesting 
to me.


- Steve

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> *From:* Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> on behalf of Ben 
> Stuyts via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, 31 May 2025 2:58 AM
> *To:* SDIY <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> *Subject:* [sdiy] Happy 30th birthday Synth-DIY
> Hi all,
>
> A bit belated, but May 30 1995 is the oldest message in the archive 
> (ignoring test messages and faulty Date: headers). So let’s consider 
> this the 30th birthday of this great list and its members. 30 years!
>
> And there are still members active from this beginning. See 
> https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/1995-May/date.html 
> <https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/1995-May/date.html> and 
> further. Unfortunately we have also lost members, like Jürgen Haible 
> on that first page.
>
> Many thanks and three cheers to Rick Jansen, the founder and long time 
> admin/curator of this list. Rick, are you still out there? If so, can 
> you say something about the start of this list?
>
> I subscribed in 1998 I think, and was mostly a lurker. Back in 2016, 
> Rick was looking for someone else to run the list and I volunteered. 
> The reason was that I had (and still have) an much respect for the 
> contents and members of this list and its high signal to noise ratio. 
> This would be a way to do something back for this community.
>
> Here are some statistics I put together last week. Don’t pin me down 
> on the exact numbers, they might be off by 1 or 2. I just accepted 
> what the various Python libraries could make of the Archive mailbox 
> (around 650 MB)...
>
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>
> Thanks everybody for keeping this list easy to manage, and posting 
> great questions and information.
>
> Ben
>
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