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Skriven 2007-02-23 00:47:26 av BURTON FORD (1:123/140)
Ärende: Echo History
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Hi      2/23/07 12:46 AM

Someone asked about Echo past.

For what it's worth:   I found these in my MM database.

I wish someone would write a review of the last 10-15 years, with names and
general descriptions.  Some one who has a memory, or data files.

It would be a lovely effort.

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  ~- Sam Waring Has Additional Comments --
  
  I tried sending this out several days ago, but due to a misalignment
  in Xpress on my board, it wound up being tossed into INTERCOOK.  I
  *hope* it's gonna make it to the right area this time.
  
  SS> Since I know that you have been around just about a coon's age on
  SS> this here echo... 8-}  Do you or anyone else have a quick history
  of SS> the cooking echo?  Who was the first moderator, and who has
  been SS> since then... also..  do you know just who exactly started
  it?
  
  It was started in 1987, when some boards in Connecticut decided to
  take what had been a local echo national.  Somewhere around here I've
  got a copy of the first test message Sam Saluys posted (I think it's
  buried in a box of letters under the bed), and which she reposted a
  couple of years back in answer to a similar query.  (In case you're
  wondering, it was a recipe for how to boil water. B-{)### )
  
  I can't tell you much about the first year or so, because I wasn't in
  Fido then--I started showing up sometime in 1988, about the time that
  Sam dropped out of sight (I never knew why, but I suspect lack of
  time--one of the usual reasons--might have been the cause).  We were
  about to get dropped from the ELIST because we hadn't updated our
  listings in too long, and rather than let it die, Rich Harper jumped
  in and volunteered to mode- rate , and just about got elected by
  acclamation (and none of the rest of us had the time or enough
  inclination). He worked a *lot* on promoting the echo, and gets a lot
  of the credit for its massive growth. I seem to remember that in '88
  a big day was 60 messages, and by '90 we were regu- larly running
  well over 100 messages a day.
  
  Rich ran the place until about late '89 or early '90, and then had to
  give up because of health and lack of money (two more usual reasons).
  He passed the moderatorship to Tia Darrow, in Colorado Springs, and
  she did it for another year and some.  Finally, she got tired of
  trying to keep us all corralled, and also wanted to provide an echo
  similar to COOKING but which would allow more general chat, so she
  resigned as moderator of COOKING and started COFFEE_KLATSCH.  She
  handed the moderatorship back to Rich, but his health prohibited him
  continuing for long and he passed it to Joann in '91 (you were
  wondering when I'd get to her, didn't you? B-{)### ), and that's how
  it's been since.
  
  Now this is pretty skeletal for several reasons:  first, I can't
  remember all the dates exactly.  Second, yes there were squabbles on
  the echo, and I was there for a lot of them and remember what
  happened and who shot John, and I'm not going to tell about them.
  Those bones are buried, and I hope they stay that way; I don't want
  to listen to ancient grudges getting brought up again.  I only
  mention them because I fear that if I don't, someone will accuse me
  of selective memory or will charge in with "But you left out the time
  that..." and rake up something better off dead, IMO. I've told the
  nice part, and that's all I intend to tell.
  
  I'm sorry to have to end this post on a sour note, but I'm afraid
  that if I don't say all this, I'll start another EchoWar without
  wanting one at all. Selah.
  
  Sam Waring Clerk of the Records ReU/L to NCE by Burt Ford 5/96 01/00
  2/07.
 
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  From: Sam Waring said to Sharon Stevens:& Ted Taylor
  
  SW> It was started in 1987, when some boards in Connecticut decided to
  SW>take what had been a local echo national.  Somewhere around here
  I've SW>got a copy of the first test message Sam Saluys...
  
  Sam /Saulys/
  
  SW> I can't tell you much about the first year or so, because I
  wasn't in Fido then--I started showing up sometime in 1988, about the
  time that Sam dropped out of sight (I never knew why, but I suspect
  lack of time--one of the usual reasons--might have been the cause).
  We were about to get dropped from the ELIST because we hadn't updated
  our listings in too long, and rather than let it die, Rich Harper
  jumped in and volunteered to mode- rate , and just about got elected
  by acclamation (and none of the rest of us had the time or enough
  inclination).  He worked a *lot* on promoting the echo, and gets a
  lot of the credit for its massive growth. I seem to remember that in
  '88 a big day was 60 messages, and by '90 we were regu- larly running
  well over 100 messages a day.
  
  SW>And these days, some of us wish it was down to a few hundred a
  day. What happened was not that Sam dropped out, but that there was
  some kind of Fidonet snafu.  East of the Mississippe (roughly), we
  were seeing all the messages; west, you were only seeing some of the
  easterners messages. Sam's area (she's in Connecticut, but it seemed
  like everything from NYC up wasn't making it out west) was part of
  what you weren't seeing, so it looked like there was no moderator to
  the people west of the Mississippi. I don't know if she saw your
  messages or not.
  
  SW>After Rich volunteered as moderator, while Sam was still
  moderator, many of us were seeing messages from two moderators, and
  eventually there was a bit of hue-and-cry when Sam said she'd
  /always/ been moderator, and a lot of people accused her of having
  abandoned the echo (which she had not, in fact, done). That got
  straightened out after a while, and Rich became /The/ moderator.
  
  You must be getting old, Sam -- I can remember all /my/ dates.  :)
  
  U/l to NCE by Burt Ford 01/00 02/07.
  NOTE: I didn't write the above I'm just uploading it.  [g]
  
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