[WWI] A question for Allan and the list

[Allan Wright]

I forget who was the very first. I think I got the list information out
on some other related sites and I registered it on some search engines.

Word spread fast among the IPMS people. Early participants were 
Mick Fauchon, John Roll, Doug Jones, Victor Annas, Bill Shatzer and Erik
Pilawskii. I remember getting a boost in membership later on when Gary
from Sopwith hobbies joined up, and again when Steve Hustad joined up. 

Early administration help from Matt Bittner was also instrumental in
keeping the website that supports the list going strong. In those early
days we did ALL the gallery updates by hand and they were an immense
amount of work. They're still a lot of work, but Sanjeev's new scripts
(and his tireless help) make it a lot easier than it was in the early
days. 

Honestly, someone could make a very nice book, by using the list
archives as source material on the rebirth of WWI modeling in the past
15 years. Of course you'd all have to be listed as co-authors of such a
work!


On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 10:45 -0300, Diego Fernetti wrote:
> > The archive was started a week or two after I got the initial list
> > running, but for all intents and purposes July '94 was the list's start.
> 
> Do you recall who was the first one who participated (apart from you) and
> how he came to know that there was a mail list going on?
> D.
>