Yea, I remember Kathy Kennel banned me. Then Jabba banned me from the banned list twice.
-----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of LWB250 Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:24 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] bye bye Marshall Dang, Jabba, I had totally forgotten about cookies. Wow, that does go back a long time. Don't forget Kathy and the MBCA list, too - there was some parallel action that took place as a result of that debacle as well... Dan --- On Thu, 8/13/09, Gary Hurst <jabbahur...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Gary Hurst <jabbahur...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] bye bye Marshall > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 4:20 PM > i'd guess 98 or 99, but someone like > little tommy would remember such a > thing. > > to sum it up briefly as i understand it: in the > beginning, there was dave > realtime and esa ahola. figure about 95ish. a > dominant figure on the list > was cookies and he really pissed off a ton of people > everyday. ritter and > easley then started their own list to be "kinder and > gentler" and cookies > free, maybe about 96 or 97. one stuart steele was > doing the "listmom" thing > for ritter/easley and he and ritter undertook basically > what amounted to > purges of all dissidents. the mbz.org lists began as > a reaction to those > purges, beginning with "banned" as a safe haven for > mercedesphiles who had > been purged from ritter/easley. as ritter/easley > purported to be kinder and > gentler, banned went out of its way to be exactly the > opposite so while it > did contain tech information, it was not a fit forum for > many who wished to > participate in an alternative tech list. so richard > sexton and i decided > that if dr booth as willing to participate in the proposed > diesel list, we'd > run out a bunch of more democratic and open lists via > mbz.org > > then richard and mbz.org had one final nuclear meltdown and > lists > disappeared, but kaleb took the initiative and stepped up > to keep them alive > (originally while richard brought the lists back up, but > now permanently) > and that is where we are today. > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Peter Merle <merle.pe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > When did the list actually start? I have been on /off > over many years . > > Marshall always helped out and made sense of many > things than perflexed one > > Peter > > > > 2009/8/13 Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> > > > > > But we have you now. > > > > > > --R > > > > > > Gary Hurst wrote: > > > > > >> marshall is historically the only reason this > list exists. the whole > > >> mbz.org list system (apart from banned) was > contingent upon marshall's > > >> agreed participation. had marhall said > "no", the plan was to never > > start > > >> the diesel list. > > >> > > >> just a bit of old school trivia for those of > you who might still care > > >> > > >> = > > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > > http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090813/c1f cdb2a/attachment.html > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090813/db 48a92c/attachment.html> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
