Fwd: longevity of the mailing list

[Lawrence Weeks]

Nah, AltaVista was run by DEC. It was a project to demonstrate the power of
the DEC Alpha processor. It was pretty cool (though those Alphas ran pretty
hot!). Yahoo! bought it later from DEC.

Larry


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:17 PM, George Roffe <geo31 at suddenlink.net> wrote:

>  I found the list via Alta Vista or Yahoo (IIRC Alta Vista was either part
> of Yahoo or they had an agreement).  It was in mid-late 96 I think (less
> than a year after moving to Houston).
>
> I'm pretty sure Merlin was gone by the time I joined the list because I
> remember reading ABOUT him.
>
> I remember when Mike joined the list.  He stirred things up at first
> because he blew up some of the "common knowledge."
>
> Geo
>
>
> On 7/25/2014 3:30 PM, James McColl wrote:
>
>
> LOL, I sent that to Lawrence.  Just Lawrence.  I think I've forgotten how
> to use a mailing list.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *James McColl* <james.mccoll at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, 25 July 2014
> Subject: longevity of the mailing list
> To: Lawrence Weeks <lweeks at anabasis.net>
>
>
> I bought my NX2000 on October 9, 1996.  Still under warranty!  I had one
> of the a-pillars replaced free.
>
>  I think I found the SE-R List in 1997.  Might have been 1998.  I
> remember the first person I asked for help was Merlin.
>
>  Amazingly, I didn't go to my first SE-R Convention until this year.
>
>  It was a blast.  Especially going to Denny's after 3 AM, with Mark S.,
> Hank and Ostlund.  You meet the nicest people that time of night...
>
>  James
>
> On Friday, 25 July 2014, Lawrence Weeks <lweeks at anabasis.net> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I'm sure that's where I did too, probably under rec.auto.
>>
>>  Larry
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Wade Jackson <srwadet at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I think I found out about the mailing list on the usenet news groups.
>>>
>>> Wade
>>> member since 1992!
>>>
>>>
>>> ---- Khiem Dinh <spdracerut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > bah.... webcrawler!
>>> >
>>> > -Khiem
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Matt Hunt <mhunt at ecin.net> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > On 7/25/14, 3:34 PM, Lawrence Weeks wrote:
>>> > > > Jim, I bet you used AltaVista!
>>> > >
>>> > > Hotbot!
>>> > >
>>> > > matt
>>>  > >
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>>  --
>> Lawrence Weeks                                    lweeks at anabasis.net
>> Anabasis Consulting Ltd
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Lawrence Weeks                                    lweeks at anabasis.net
Anabasis Consulting Ltd
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