Tweek name history and mailing list volume entries

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@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ accepted by Boost is
 one way to establish existing practice.</p>
 
 <p><b>Where does the name &quot;Boost&quot; come from?</b> Boost began with
-Robert Klarer and me fantasizing about a new library effort over dinner at a C++
-committee meeting in Sofia Antipolis, France. Robert mentioned that Herb Sutter
+Robert Klarer and I fantasizing about a new library effort over dinner at a C++
+committee meeting in Sofia Antipolis, France, in 1998. Robert mentioned that Herb Sutter
 was working on a spoof proposal for a new language named Booze, which was
 supposed to be better than Java. Somehow that kicked off the idea of
 &quot;Boost&quot; as a name. We'd probably had a couple of glasses of good
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ French wine at that point. It was just a working name, but no one ever came up
 with a replacement. (Beman Dawes)</p>
 
 <p><b>Is the web site a commercial business?</b> No. It is just some people getting together
-as a kind of cyberspace civic association. If it ever needs to incorporate, it would be as
+as a kind of cyberspace civic association. If it ever needs to incorporate, it would be as 
+a
 non-profit organization.</p>
 
 <p><b>Is there any charge for submitting libraries or reviews to Boost.org?</b> No. Unlike
@@ -139,17 +140,14 @@ projects and the occasional look into other threads by otherwise uninterested pa
 "noise".</p>
 
 <p><b>How can I cope with the large volume of boost mailing list messages?</b>&nbsp;
-One approach is to use the YahooGroups digest option; that cuts the email blizzard
-down to about three (long) messages per day, so you can glance over the subjects
-summary at the top and quickly read what you think is important.&nbsp;The
-YahooGroups &quot;no mail/web only&quot; option is best if you just occasionally
-want to look at messages.</p>
-
-<p>Yet another approach is to use your email program's capabilities to filter messages and automatically
-transfer them into several boost folders.&nbsp;Then only read the folders you
-care about. Boost list posters are
-encouraged to include keywords in the subject like &quot;thread&quot;,
-&quot;review&quot;, and &quot;CVS&quot; to aid message filtering.</p>
+One approach is to use the &quot;digest&quot; option; that cuts the email blizzard
+down to several (long) messages per day, so you can glance over the subjects
+summary at the top and quickly read what you think is important.&nbsp;The&nbsp; &quot;no 
+mail&quot; option turns off list email entirely.</p>
+
+<p>Another approach is to follow the list traffic via an NTTP newsgroup reader. 
+See <a href="mailing_lists.htm#newsgroup">Mailing List</a> newsgroup 
+information.</p>
 
 <p><b>Why do Boost headers have a .hpp suffix rather than .h or none at all?</b>
 File extensions communicate the &quot;type&quot; of the file, both to humans and
@@ -167,7 +165,7 @@ See the suggestions on the <a href="bugs.htm">Bugs page</a>.</p>
 
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-<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->18 April, 2004<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="38549" endspan --></p>
+<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->23 June, 2005<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="19916" endspan --></p>
 
 <p>© Copyright Beman Dawes 2001</p>
 <p> Use, modification, and distribution are subject to the Boost Software 
@@ -175,4 +173,4 @@ License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">
 LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">
 www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>) </p>
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