[WWI] A question for Allan and the list

[Diego Fernetti]

Allan!
All the work you and the minions have done for the past 14 years is very
appreciated. Especially for geeks like me who live in faraway places where
even the mention of WW1 is an eccentricity.
D.
http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/aew/Al2.png
You shoul be more careful with those things. What if they give you a shock?
What if you push a button that makes that explode or something?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Wright" <aew at unh.edu>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] A question for Allan and the list


> 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.
> >