Yes, Michael Anderson. He got pissed about the OT stuff on the motorola@
list. IIRC, shortly after the I QUIT incident, the list server went down
and he said it was a h/w failure (while out of town? I don't remember if
that was the case) and finally brought it back up. But it was too late
and AFMUG was born. More accurately, the "Motorola II" list was born,
and I believe that was hosted for a short time on the WISPA list serv?
I think the combination of WISPAmerica and Animal Farm is great.
On 2/13/2018 4:06 PM, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
You have to go back a long way in WISP history for how we got here….
The list was Part-15 at one time, and existed prior to WISPA. Can’t recall
the last name - Michael somebody ran the organization. One day Michael was
mad about something and posted the infamous “I quit” email - and that was
pretty much the end of Part 15 and the list. I actually think that was during
a Animal Farm session if I recall correctly.
Chuck took over the list after that - I don’t think it was called AFMUG at the
time, but it later became that. Might have even been Motorola specific - not
that it was ever on topic anyway.
There are WISPA lists - but the AFMUG list has lived on. Yes - it’s Chuck’s
list though occasionally the members donate money for the cost of hosting it.
This list has it’s advantages. It’s membership leans toward a group of people
who have known each other for a very long time. You probably shouldn’t say
bad things about WBMfg products (makes Chuck get all kranky) but everybody else
if fair game. I like it since it’s a place I can say things I can’t really say
with a WISPA hat on (or at least I can’t say without blowback to WISPA).
Mark
On Feb 13, 2018, at 2:13 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Fair warning, Forrest has spam rights too...
-----Original Message----- From: ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:03 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Spam from Chuck
I merge my AnimalFarm email list with my MailChimp list about once a year.
You do realize that this list is my list, right?
So essentially every time I make a posting here I am spamming you, right?
I used to do it every Friday right here on this list.
But I think it is cleaner and better quality to use MailChimp.
Did you unsubscribe from the Mail Chimp? That will prevent it from ever
happening again.
-----Original Message----- From: fiber...@mail.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:58 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] Spam from Chuck
I just got spammed by Chuck McCown. What's up with that?
I sure as hell haven't signed up for any of his email lists nor done any
business with him, or even indicate I would like to. I find it in extremely
poor taste to mine the Af list for spam targets.
Jared
