[quote=DamonLinkous][quote=klozhald]I did not know we had such a ranking.
Shouldn't we have piped him onboard 44 posts ago?
#bosunscall
Bob
mattson
FIVE STARS
Online Pioneer
Rank: Online Pioneer
Registered: Apr 23, 2002
Last visit: Jun 10, 2017
Posts: 44[/quote]
Glad you asked, sometimes I assume everyone knows the history of the site, and what came before.
Bill's ranking, instead of being based on post count like normal, is in honor of his history of service to the beachcat community through his "On The Wire eZine", which he faithfully published monthly for years before this site existed.
See the archive at:
[url=https://www.thebeachcats.com/OnTheWire/catsail/arcvol1.htm]https://www.thebeachcats.com/OnTheWire/catsail/arcvol1.htm[/url]
Back then I ran an email list called hobielist (later it was changed to beachcats to be more inclusive) and a website with the url Linkpro.net/hobielist during the 1990's before starting this site in 2002. Those mail server lists trace their roots all the way back to the early 1990's newsroup (anyone remember those?) rec.boats (and also alt.sailing) when only sailors who worked at research universities, goverment, or big corporations even knew what email was. Somewhere I've got a list of the first dozen or so members of the hobielist and most had either .gov or .nasa email accounts.
So consider that "Online Pioneer" Five Star rank a kind of "Professor Emeritus" status of the beachcat world.
When Bill decided to stop producing On The Wire, he allowed me to make it's archive part of this site.
So proper respect please![/quote]
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