Date:         Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:33:58 -0700
Reply-To:     Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
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From:         Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: List member count
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> 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