Re: longevity of the mailing list

Fri Jul 25 19:41:04 EDT 2014

The level of nostalgia going on right now is out of control.

I remember joining before so had the SE-R.  I had a B-13 XE before.  I think I found the SE-R webring which had SE-R.net and the list as well as all the great old school pages like George Roffes ultimate engine build and Zotz page of how-tos and the rotor advance trick.  Pretty sure I used Yahoo or AltaVista back then.

Favorite list moments would have to be the Audi A4 1.8T Quattro debate proving it to be the better car in any contest of speed (ducks), writing letters to KYB to get some AGXs made for our cars, then the hypercoils, and of course all of the great how tos questions that used to come through on a daily basis.  I know everyone helped here through some clutch debacles I had back in the day.

Good times!

Omer
92 White SE-R
www.ohmfab.com

Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone

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From: "Matt McCrary" <mattmccrary at gmail.com>
To: "Lawrence Weeks" <lweeks at anabasis.net>
Cc: "se-r list" <se-r at se-r-list.org>
Subject: longevity of the mailing list
Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2014 6:53 PM

We didn't have phone lines for dialup in our barracks back in the mid 90's.. So I never had my first email address until 98 after I got out of the Marine Corps.. and I had no idea how to navigate the interwebs... I found out what the SE-R was the day after I bought my B13 and my car loving roommate made fun of me for not spending the extra $1000 for one... I was looking to do my first oil change when I saw the two different engine codes in the manual.. Even the engine code sounded cooler on the SE-R..

On Jul 25, 2014 4:22 PM, "Lawrence Weeks" <lweeks at anabasis.net> wrote:
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.

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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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