> i think i was number 4 or 5 ... i wuz busy composing some Phrydaye > Phollies crap and some of the old members like Ric Golen or Richard > Jones snuck in ahead of me! Joel: I THINK you were posting your weekly stats when I joined, but I don't remember when I joined. The Washington Post article in 2001 that quoted you and Tom C has the list starting in 1994: > When Gerry Skerbitz founded it in 1994 at the University of > Minnesota as a know-how trading post on all types of VW buses, > 78 subscribers signed on in the first month. Members now number > about 1,000 I would say the list started in 1992 or so--earlier than '94. The oldest archives are April '94, and I have a post in that. I know I lurked for quite a while before I posted. I will always let you in ahead of me in line, Joel. Does anyone have any definite knowledge or evidence of when the list started? BTW--in November Jim Arnott told me there were just under 900 subscribers. Richard |
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