Date:         Sun, 5 Mar 2006 10:25:53 -0800
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: How long on the list?
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>
>
> > How long have you been on the list?
>
> since before the age of the dinosaurs. :)
> did i ever tell you guys about dinosaurs??? ;)
>
> no, really. it was back in march or april of '94 when i claim to have
> nagged gerry skerbitz into starting the vanagon list
> on the computers at the university of minnesota. he got permission
> from his boss and that's when it started.


Indeed, this qualifies you for the title of Longest Continuous Poster. For
those interested, here's the oldest Unca' Joel post in the archives:
<http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9404&L=vanagon&D=0&P=264>
Using the "left arrow" button on the toolbar (leftmost button), we see that
this is the third post to the list, with the first being from Gerry (the
person) saying "the list is up" and the second being from some guy saying
"It got here". I think Joel deserves the "First Post with VW Content"
trophy.

I actually sat down and read every message in the first 2 years worth of
archives in chronological order once and made note of the memorable stuff..
Other nonsense I turned up includes first list mention of the term "Uncle
Joel":
<http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9407&L=vanagon&F=&S=&P=8373>
and the first appearance of the modern usage "Unca Joel":
<http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9407&L=vanagon&P=R13975>

--
John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"

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