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Happy Holidays ! 
and a
Happy New Millennium! 
(The real one!)
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Our Lady of the Snows Stormy Knights 
Jr. Drum and Bugle Corps Alumni News Letter 

The Knightly News Letter, Issue 2 
December 8, 2000 

Contents: 

1) E-Mail lists 
2) Stormy Knights Egroups 
3) Webshots 
4) Links / Alumni Links 

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1) E-Mail Lists 

I created the mail list for this newsletter from posted e-mails 
on the Alumni page of the Stormy Knights site. I simply clicked 
on the name from the table on the alumni page, when the 
"Compose" window came up with the e-mail address, you highlight 
the address, and copy it into the Windows clipboard. Then paste 
it into a new Address List in your Netscape Address book. 
(I did add a few addresses from alumni that have requested their 
e-mail not be posted. That's why you don't see the recipient list.)

I like to use Netscape, but if somebody out there likes
MS Internet Explorer and Outlook, please send me a note out
with instructions and I'll post it, or you can send it out yourself.

It really isn't that hard. Anyone can do it, with any list of e-mails 
you want to create. Give it a try with just a few names to get 
the hang of it. 

If you don't want to be on any future e-mailings, please reply 
with the word "Remove" in the "Subject". If anyone wants to 
be the moderator/editor for this newsletter, please drop me 
a line. I don't think this would need to go out more than once 
a month, quarterly is even OK. (The last one went out on 
8/25/2000.) You can define the newsletter to be anything 
you want it to be regarding content and schedule. 

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2) EGroups 

I started an "E-Group" at www.egroups.com. If you are 
interested in subscribing to the Stormy Knights E-Group, 
you can register at the above site. Go to the site, enter the 
keyword "stormyknights" in the search field, and you will be 
brought to the Stormy Knights sign up page. 

The nice thing about this site is they provide an e-mail address: 
stormyknights@egroups.com 
Anyone can send an email to the above address and it will go 
to all subscribed members. Anyone can join. There are currently 
only eight members. Come on down! 

Even better, anyone can join any e-group, and anyone can start 
a new e-group of your specific interest. We're in good company. 
Search for "drum corps" and you'll find a Blue Devils e-group. 

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3) Webshots 

You may be interested in checking out the following web site: 
www.webshots.com 

Please visit the site through the link on the Stormy Knights 
affiliate page: 
http://www.stormyknights.org/affilates.htm 

I won't go into any great detail here as I gave a lot of details 
in the 8/25/2000 issue regarding downloading the 1972 corps 
photo and ordering a print on line. If you want to see that issue, 
please visit the Knightly News archive page. 

What I do want to mention is that I can put the 1963 photo 
up there if people want me too. This way you can order your 
own print, or download a high resolution copy. This takes a bit 
of work as I have to massage the photo resolution into something 
they will accept, and will also print in decent quality. 

If enough people get back to me on posting the 1963 photo on 
Webshots I will give it a try. By the way, has anybody ordered 
prints from Webshots of the 1972 photo? If so, how did they 
turn out? 

Whenever you visit the Webshots site please do so from the 
Affiliate page on the Stormy Knights site. 

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4) Links 

This was supposed to be a simple heads up for everybody that 
has relocated off New York and Long Island that Suffolk County 
has a new area code. It is "631". 

When I found the following link, I realized this area code 
business is pretty complicated. This link will tell you about new 
and planned area code changes from West Virginia to Maine. 
Take a look at New York, New Jersey and Long Island. 
It's a real eye opener. 

Have you heard about "Geographic Overlays"? That's when 
the telephone company gives an area a new area code, but 
overlays it right on top of the existing one. The implications are 
that your new next door neighbor may have a different area 
code than you do, and in order to dial them, you need 
to dial ten digits. Phew! 

http://www.bell-atl.com/areacode/ 

I'll let you in on a little secret. In about ten years, there is 
going to be another "software crisis" involving ten digit 
telephone numbers. When we run out of area codes and 
have to expand beyond ten digits, all the software and 
databases in the world that have hard coded field lengths 
will have to be rewritten. You heard it here first! 

If anybody has any interesting links they want to send me, 
I can post them either on the "Links" page or even a separate 
"Alumni Links" page. Send me your ideas. 

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See you at the finish line...
Sal Gambino