I can't exactly pinpoint the time I began to subscribe here. Pentax still supported the list on their server. The Who was babbling badly (Imagine a poor English speaker who contested everything in an incoherent way and wouldn't shut up.) Valentin the 'Caveman' was with us as was Roberto Burgos from Costa Rica. The PUG was on hiatus, and I didn't know it. A guy from the Philippines suggested having a gallery and I sent him a picture of a squirrel in a blizzard at my feeder. He published a few pictures and then the list got embarrassed and recalled that they had done this earlier, but had let it slip. It was revived and really grew. I learned that my best camera, my PZ-1, didn't matrix meter with anything older than an 'A' lens (Thanks Ken) and was enabled to buy all manner of gear. Regards, Bob S.
On 12/4/06, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/3/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > .. have you participated in the PDML, in its various iterations. > <snip> > > Do any of the old timers recall how they heard about the list? > > Well, I don't consider myself an old timer, but I've been here a while, I > guess. > > Got my first computer around the spring of 2000 - the girl I just > broke up with gave it to me (out of guilt? pity?). I know that I got > onto a Spotmatic discussion group (Peter Jonkman's) which morphed into > a Group that was taken over by Yahoo - afaik, they're still there. > > Someone from that Spottie group (a certain Ray Allen of Sydney, Oz, > FWIW) told me about this one, and I think I started lurking somewhere > around the summer or early fall of 2000. Started posting/submitting > to PUG shortly thereafter, if memory serves. > > So, my best guess would be mid-2000 sometime. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
