[QuadList] QuadList status report--Sunday, April 29, 2012--We're Back.

[Steve White]

Thanks, Ted.

On 4/29/12 11:22 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:
> Another NAB has passed, and our Fifth Annual Quad Videotape Group 
> Annual Lunch at NAB was held on its usual Tuesday in the rear food 
> court seating area in Lower South Hall.
>
> We'll post pictures to the QuadList later this coming week... and also 
> revise the website, with new information as time allows.
>
> The QuadVideotapeGroup.com <http://QuadVideotapeGroup.com> website and 
> QuadList uses a shared IP address from a server farm in Texas
>
> Somewhere about the same time as our Quad Videotape Group Lunch at 
> NAB, a number of internet Blacklists began reporting that the shared 
> IP address was connected to a trojan of some sort.
>
> As a result, we began receiving rejection notices and blocking of 
> posts to the list.
>
> A number of users were automatically unsubscribed by the MailMan 
> software because of excessive bounces.
>
> This situation also affected a number of e-mail addresses with other 
> domains I maintain on the same server.
>
> After contacting our web hosting company to address the Trojan and 
> blockade, it appears that the blocks have been lifted, and I'm not 
> seeing bounces or rejections from posts I've sent recently.
>
> QuadList members who were unsubscribed due to bounces have been 
> re-subscribed, and should receive this e-mail.
>
> During this period, we also were unable to point out that yesterday 
> was the 54th anniversary of the dedication of NBC Burbank Videotape 
> Central... with eight first generation Ampex VR-1000 quads and only 
> one RCA machine.
>
> I'll repost an e-mail I just sent.
>
> We'd also like to welcome Steve White to the list.  He subscribed to 
> post a comment about the Beatles Washington D.C. concert that David 
> Crosthwait helped restore.
>
> Unfortunately, he posted with a different address than the one he 
> subscribed with, and the message was held.
>
> I've asked him to repost.  It's a good read. He was on the crew for 
> the shoot and offers some insight into the remote.
>
> Please make sure you use your subscribed address to post.  Otherwise 
> your messages get held up as "post to the list by a non-subscriber." 
>  It has happened to me, too.
>
> And welcome to all the other new QuadList members who have joined 
> since our last member list update.
>
> I hope to post a fresh version soon so you can see if there's someone 
> you know, or someone near you on the list.
>
> As we enter our sixth year, a toast to all the First and Second 
> Generation Quad Design, Maintenance and Operating Engineers, and to 
> training the Third and Fourth Generations so the Content lives on.
>
> Ted
>
> Ted Langdell
> ted at quadvideotapegroup.com <mailto:ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
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> <http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/>:
> Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in 
> conjunction with the Library of Congress
>
>
> Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.
>
> Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.
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