Ross and I were two of the 14 students who took Honours Pure Maths at the
University of Sydney in 1965.  My mother was Marjorie Pratt, a champion
diver in the 1930's, and as luck would have it, Ross's wife is also
Marjorie.

G'day, mate.

Vaughan

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 9:51 PM Ross Street <ross.street@mq.edu.au> wrote:

> Dear Bob
>
> Far away in time and distance from most of your readers Max Kelly, in
> Australia,
> decided to make a mailing list of category theorists he knew from
> conferences;
> I contributed some more people. The list was typed on a golfball IBM
> typewriter.
> When we had a preprint or two (and once, a ``Christmas Letter''), we would
> photocopy
> the list onto sheets of address labels, put the preprints in envelopes,
> and mail them
> using the reliable postal system of the 1970s.
>
> Once we sent the list itself around too. Mike Barr wrote or said to Max:
> ``What am I supposed
> to do with this!'' Max explained what we did. However, by then, word
> processors were
> around and Mike wanted an electronic version. We moved to that. The first
> word processor
> our Macquarie Mathematics Department secretaries used was called ``OK
> editor'', not great.
> Of course then in came email and work stations and personal computers and
> TeX, . . . ; you
> know the story.
>
> In 1990, you stepped in with prescient creations: a social medium for
> category theory
> and one of the very first electronic mathematics journals.
> What a debt our subject owes you!! You dedicated so much to running both
> magnificently.
> So easy to say ``thank you'', and I do. However, with all the thanks
> flowing in, our joint
> appreciation should be clear.
>
> It is a hard act to follow. Luckily, JS has stepped forward and already
> managed to have
> a replacement system up and running. I have full confidence that he will
> run it well, he
> is so bright and energetic. Moreover, I told the little story in the first
> paragraph to express
> my feeling of some satisfaction that the system has come to this far,
> distant land.
>
> Surely now Bob, you will have a bit more time for research and other
> things.
> You deserve it.
>
> With best regards,
> Ross
>
> > On 27 Oct 2023, at 1:14 am, Bob Rosebrugh <rrosebru@mta.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > From March 1990 until recently it was my privilege to moderate the
> categories mailing list. For a couple of years it has been my intention to
> pass the list to a new moderator, but I was too slow to act. Changes to IT
> service at my former employer, Mount Allison University, abruptly made it
> impossible for me to continue running the list.
> >
> > Those changes were unexpected for me, but I have been away from the
> campus for over three years and was not aware. The IT staff at Mount
> Allison have always been very supportive of the list and I thank them for
> their more than three decades of generous assistance.
> >
> > It is a reassuring pleasure to know that the list is now in the capable
> hands of JS Lemay who kindly accepted the invitation to revive it. I am
> very grateful. Moreover, there is no one better suited to the role and our
> community is fortunate to have him moderating. I am also very happy that
> the new home of the list is Macquarie.
> >
> > Best wishes to everyone. I am hoping to see many of you in the not
> distant future,
> > Bob Rosebrugh
> >
>
>
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