Lucky 13 is upon us....
MoPo celebrates birthday number 13 today! The first official listserv
message was distributed on February 24, 1995.
The first MoPo'ers, all 11 of them, actually started communicating in
January 1995 by simply forwarding their posts to the e-mail addresses of the
other members. One of our early members, Adam Erhlich, a student at American
University, was able to set up the listserv at AU. Adam graduated and left
the group a long time ago, but I'm still grateful to him for what he did
back in 1995. I'm also very thankful that AU still allows us to use their
listserv.
In addition to the listserv/e-mail system, for just over 4 years MoPo was
also distributed via the usenet newsgroups. Anyone remember
bit.listserv.movie.memorabilia or usenet in general? :) When AU closed the
mail to newsgroup gateway in July 1999, that put an end to our association
with usenet. But the spam, porn and bizarre antics of some newsgroup readers
were already spelling the end to that association even before AU forced us
into it. Does anyone still look at the newsgroups?
Once again, for the sake of giving credit where credit is due...here are the
11 original members of MoPo:
Mahtab Moayeri, Michael Danese, Rob Ellis, Donna Tschetter, Goh Kai Shen,
Evan Zweifel, George Nichol, Cynthia Nemeth-Johannes, Adam Ehrlich,
Static555 (his real name unknown, due to the AOL mail system!) and myself,
your listowner!
Thanks to all MoPo members, past and present, for keeping MoPo alive!
Scott Burns
MoPo List Owner
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
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