Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1653, 4 January 2014 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 08:48:46 -0700 (MST) From: mead-request@talisman.com Mead Lover's Digest #1653 4 January 2014 Mead Discussion Forum Contents: last issue of the MLD (Mead Lovers Digest) Sad but practical (Bob) Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1652, 29 December 2013 (Greg Parsons) Sorry to say good bye; (Robert Lewis) ending (Micah Millspaw) NOTE: Digest appears whenever there is enough material to send one. Send ONLY articles for the digest to mead@talisman.com. Use mead-request@talisman.com for [un]subscribe and admin requests. Digest archives and FAQ are available at www.talisman.com/mead#Archives A searchable archive is at http://www.gotmead.com/mldarchives.html Digest Janitor: Dick Dunn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: last issue of the MLD From: mead-request@talisman.com (Mead Lovers Digest) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:52:47 -0700 (MST) As announced in the preceding digest, this is the last issue of the Mead-Lover's Digest. Archives of the MLD will remain available. Digests from 2013 may be found at www.talisman.com/mead/curyr (and will remain there in spite of not being the "current year") Compressed archives of previous years may be found at either www.talisman.com/mead/tarchive (tar format) www.talisman.com/mead/zipper (zip format) Try the tar format first; it's more compact. Linux and Mac systems handle it properly. As to this Digest: It contains all postings received since the preceding (1652) up to 4 Jan 2014 AM. -Exception-: Postings which attached or included an entire previous digest do not appear. - --- Mead-Lover's Digest mead-request@talisman.com Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor Boulder County, Colorado USA ------------------------------ Subject: Sad but practical From: Bob Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:57:08 -0500 As a GotMead? Patron and avid MLD reader (unfortunately not a common poster) I am saddened to see this resource dry up. There are many people on here who are not on any other forums (thinking about some of you commercial guys, and others), and this form is more friendly to some other people (versus the use of forums) who are simply more comfortable with this format. But, those facts presented are reality smacking us in the face, and it hurts, but life usually sucks. That's why we make mead! That sweet (not implying sugaryness (I made it a word), just goodness), remarkable elixir that makes life seem less sucky sometimes. It's funny, I was going to post up some stuff the other day because of the lack of MLD emails, but the death knell has already been struck. Too late. Thanks for everyone's help, knowledge, and kindness, Bob P.S. A good round of cheers for Dick for keeping this resource alive for so long! :) ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Mead Lover's Digest #1652, 29 December 2013 From: Greg Parsons Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:57:01 -0500 I don't think that it is no longer relevant, I just think that the few of us left are busy with life and trying to survive in today's world. I have been on the list for a long time, and I am going to go look at the archives to see if I am missing anything from my archives. If someone else does decided to take up the torch please let us all know. Greg [janitor sez: re "the few of us left", the subscription list is 1264. Even allowing for a lot of those being non-bouncing failures, we've well over a thousand subscribers. That's a lot of silence.] ------------------------------ Subject: Sorry to say good bye; From: Robert Lewis Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:45:27 -0500 and a hearty thank you to our digest janitor. I discovered the MLD when the internet was young, AOL was king, and information about mead was scarce. I am also guilty on not contributing for some time. The Digest gave me great input over the years, there were also some hilariously funny posts and responses, (putting a quartz crystal in the carboy comes to mind). I raise a glass of golden nectar in honor to say good bye. Some years back I met Vicky Rowe, creator of Gotmead.com at a home brewers guild meeting. She praised my mead Highly, and encouraged I join the site. I did for a year, but barely visited it, had mixed feelings about renewing as I wanted to support mead making education, but I barely used the site. It may have become the facebook of mead making, and I suppose I will have to sign up again. Thank you Dick.... perhaps one day we will meet and raise glasses together. Robert... (Please contact me for any future mead groups.) ------------------------------ Subject: ending From: Micah Millspaw Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 15:26:14 +0000 I agree it's time to call it. I want to say thank you Dick for keeping this going so long. Everybody take care and wassail !!! micah ------------------------------ End of Mead Lover's Digest #1653 *******************************