There was a WHOLE LOT more to it than that Bill. It's a long and rather ugly
story. The great part is, out of the Part-15 ashes, we got WISPA!
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> On Feb 29, 2016, at 2:27 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah. Me too. That's what I thought. The "I QUIT!" message, and not very long
> after that all the messages stopped. All I thought was that he really did
> quit.
>
> The list lives regardless!
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>> On 2/29/2016 11:25 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>> I don’t think it was more than an hour later. I honestly thought he shut it
>> down. I sent him several offlist emails asking about it. Nothing. Pretty
>> sure he went somewhere and came back after a weekend or something. I don’t
>> know how long part-15 kept going after that. I felt bad about it but I
>> didn’t do it as a coup. Not sure if Michael ever believed that.
>>
>> Folks were contacting me wondering the same things we I gave folks a place
>> to hang out.
>>
>> From: Bill Prince
>> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 12:21 PM
>> To: af@afmug.com
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] married-male seeking internet service
>>
>> That's pretty much how I remember it. Quite ironic that the server crashed
>> the day that Bullet (Bullit?) wrote the "I QUIT!" message. Kind of a strange
>> twist of fate I guess.
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>> On 2/29/2016 11:10 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>>> Mike Anderson.
>>>
>>> One day he got mad and sent a note “I OUIT!!!” to the list. He was pissed
>>> because someone posted a Trango question on the Canopy list or something
>>> like that.
>>>
>>> Then, part 15 quit working. It stayed down all day. That evening I was
>>> fielding lots of questions about whether or not part 15 was done for good.
>>>
>>> We set up a listserv and told everyone about it and everyone ended up here.
>>> Michael realized a day or two later that his server had crashed ( I think
>>> he may have went on a short vacation or something). By then everyone was
>>> chatting over here.
>>>
>>> (We did take a rather odd detour through WISPA for a while, but they
>>> decided they then owned the list and we got it out of there).
>>>
>>> From: Scott Vander Dussen
>>> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 12:02 PM
>>> To: af@afmug.com
>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] married-male seeking internet service
>>>
>>> Part-15.org days—wow, haven’t thought of that for a while. What was the
>>> name of the dude who ran that list? IIRC something went down between him
>>> and Chuck? Some kind of conflict..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of justsumname .
>>> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 9:38 AM
>>> To: af@afmug.com
>>> Subject: [AFMUG] married-male seeking internet service
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ...in central / northish Kentucky, near Lexington / Frankfurt /
>>> Lawrenceburg / Anderson County.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't need it *now* but I am scouting in advance of being there. Don't
>>> need a ton of bandwidth, just decent latency and reliability for working
>>> from home. Good-ol-days 900Mhz Canopy -- no thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks to anyone who gots any help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> (I joined this group many years ago ... part-15.org days cuz I was doing
>>> this for money, but been outta it since 2010).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --m
>>>
>
