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

Was that one of the arrogant ambassador games?



--- Peter J Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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> 



		
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