Interesting history. Long live MoPo! Richard Del Belso
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:29:27 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MOPO] Caution! MoPo is Now a Teenager... To: [email protected] Caution! MoPo is Now a Teenager... 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 ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
