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Mark Fletcher
Personal blog · wingedpig.comstartupsculture
Mark Fletcher writes wingedpig, a personal blog at wingedpig.com about startups and culture. Since 2007, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mark Fletcher's blog as a source on email and mailing-list history, including a 2007 post on email clients. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Seconding https://groups.io/ I'm in a number of amateur radio and computing groups there, and it works well. From the creator: "I’ve started three companies. I started ONElist, an email groups service, in 1997, and it was acquired by Yahoo in 2000 (where it was renamed Yahoo Groups). I started Bloglines, an online RSS aggregator before Google Reader was a thing, in 2003, and it was acquired by Ask Jeeves in 2005. I…
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on “Ask HN: How to run an old-school mailing list?”Submitted Best And Worst Decisions – Paul Graham as a story · 54 points
HN discussionNope, you're not the first one to notice this. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/sfearthquakes-o.ht... http://www.wingedpig.com/archives/2007/03/back_to_the_future...
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on “Alex Payne: The Problem With Email Clients”Submitted Introducing Groups.io as a story · 10 points
HN discussion> Yahoo! Groups lasted 19 years. >I co-admin a large group that had to find a new home when it was killed off. We went to a third party ( groups.io ) that accepts money in exchange for services. Irony / wheel coming full circle, sort of: Follow the links about M&A and founders in the links below. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGroups -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi…
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on “Google Groups has been left to die”Submitted Wesabe Raises $4 Million Series A from Union Square Ventures and Mark Fletcher as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stealth Start-Ups Suck as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Re: startups as reimplemented UNIX commands -- Mark Fletcher fesses up as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mark Fletcher's History of ONElist ("The ONElist File") as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If AI Is Doing the Investigation, Version the Investigation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If AI Is Doing the Investigation, Version the Investigation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Aggregated Me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mike Klein, who Mark Fletcher hired as CEO of ONElist, died in a plane crash as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mark Fletcher: ...distributed software development force[s] better communication ... lead[ing] to an overall better development process. as a story · 1 points
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