The Hoyhoy-Digest Archive
A big thanks goes out to Red Miller, Amy Goode, Detlev Malycha, Thomas Engelman, Holger Siebert, Saul Oliansky, Hank Randall, Cherri Sparenberg, Mike Hahn, Klaus Caprani and George Wasgatt for helping to accumulate this archive.
The Archive is still missing the following digests: 43, 47, 59-60, 69, 76, 85, 93-94, 146, 155, 161, 170, 178, 197-235, 239-367, 440, 450, 455, 480, 486, 519-520, 543, 546, 629, 643, 668, 829
If you have any of the missing digests please send me an email
Red said had this to say about the origins of the archive:
From: Red Miller
Subject: Re: Ultranet and Digests.
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 08:21:24 -0500OK, a brief history…
I started the Little Feat web site in March of 1995. It was originally hosted on an account at Ultranet. Sometime around June or July, Amy and I started using a Macintosh program named Macjordomo to start the list. Macjordomo emulated most of the functionality of the Unix majordomo program (which now runs the list.) The cool thing about Macjordomo is that it works using a POP e-mail account.
Amy and I started the list because of demand from people contacting us about the website. At the start there were only 30 or so subscribers and only 1 or 2 messages a day, so no need for a digest. I believe we started calling it the Little Feat list, and the name Hoy-Hoy came later. When we started getting multiple messages every day, people started asking for a digest.
Fred Tackett has always been on the list. I knew Fred from the late seventies when I lived in Topanga and trying to be a professional musician in LA. When I started the web site, I gave Fred a call and he told me about some people on AOL that were actively discussing Little Feat. Most of those folks eventually made it to the list.
There’s more history to both the list and the website, but then this e-mail wouldn’t be brief now would it?
