How did Moonlady News get started?
It began in the late 1990s as me obsessively collecting email addresses to send notices about my seasonal events, women’s and drum activities. I couldn’t have done it without my Eudora Pro software program. After a while, I figured since I had a system set up that I might as well send other folks’ notices, too. Soon a community web had been spun. In the beginning it was called the Goddess List, because almost all members were women. But I started hearing from wives who said their husbands’ were reading their emails on the sly. Evidently the dudes couldn’t bring themselves to subscribe to something called the Goddess List. So I played the semantic game and changed the name. In April 2000, when the list went over 250 members, it became difficult to manage, so I switched it to eGroups, a list-serve management service for special-interest groups. In 2001, eGroups was absorbed by YahooGroups. After requests by members, I split off the hand drum and percussion notices into BigDBeat. There ar
