Re: Re: How many original GEnie people are left?

The Arrogant Ambassadors series, the straw that broke the Cat's back.  For some reason people were annoyed by receiving (at times) over 100 emails a day pertaining to a single game.  LOL

We ended up getting kicked onto our own exclusively AA chatgroup.  :^)



--David E. Cohen

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter J Richardson <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, August 9, 2004 8:49 am
Subject: Re: [CAT23-Gchat] Re: How many original GEnie people are left?

> Dip 443 was being played when Halisp was closed down; in fact it 
> was the list traffic caused by 443 which brought
> about the shutdown. :-)
> 
> I think it was Autumn 1999.
> 
> Regards
> Peter
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David E Watson" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:47 PM
> Subject: [CAT23-Gchat] Re: How many original GEnie people are left?
> 
> 
> > Yeah, they're all pretty much guesstimations. I'm not necessarily
> > interested in real time as I am in what game numbers were being
> > played at the time...
> > that has greater meaning in this forum anyway.
> > Dave
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "David E. Cohen" <zendip18@o...>
> > wrote:
> > > Like when Egroups took over Onelist, this date really didn't have
> > any
> > > functional significance for Cat23.  When Cat23 left Halisp, that
> > was a much
> > > bigger deal.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Peter J Richardson" <pjrich@n...>
> > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:52 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [CAT23-Gchat] Re: How many original GEnie people are
> > left?
> > >
> > >
> > > > 2000.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "David E Watson" <dipknight@c...>
> > > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 9:00 PM
> > > > Subject: [CAT23-Gchat] Re: How many original GEnie people are
> > left?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > 'Bout the only time period I don't have an adequate
> > guesstimation
> > > > > for is when Yahoo took over the eGroups lists.
> > > > > Anyone?
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In [email protected], "mczet" <mczet@c...> 
> wrote:> > > > > Thats probably about right. I recall that GEnie 
> was going
> > belly up
> > > > > due to
> > > > > > the explosion of the WWW, along with General Electrics not
> > wishing
> > > > > to put
> > > > > > money into upgrading the system. Web mentioned that
> > listservers
> > > > > were the way
> > > > > > to go, and since this was pre free Yahoo days, we had to use
> > > > > contacts. I
> > > > > > forgot who got the folks at Halisp to host us for free,
> > which was
> > > > > a real
> > > > > > lifesaver at the time as listservers were at least $100 a
> > year at
> > > > > that time.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Then the masses all came flooding into the Web, and I think
> > thats
> > > > > when AOL
> > > > > > was having problems so we had a real explosion.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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