Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 11:00 AM

First post as Guest:- June 2001. Became a member in January 2002.

DC

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 03:59 PM

Hi Allison,
I'm working with a group of women who are interested in recording "If Every Woman in the World." Like you, we want to be sure that Karen MacKay is properly credited and properly remunerated. How can we get in touch with her????
Any contact info you can provide would be so much appreciated!
Thank you, in advance,
Vicki Ryder (Durham, North Carolina)

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 04:13 PM

I've been here since 1998, I think. Or was it '97? I can blame Jeri for sucking me in, I mean, introducing me. Curmudgeon (Tom Hall) followed shortly.

I was originally Linn the Thanatolithologist (Jeri had lured me in with a gravestone symbolism thread), but I became Bat Goddess because of the nursery colony of Little Brown Bats that set up housekeeping in the roof space above the ceiling and started posting to music and folklore threads.

Linn

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Ian
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 04:23 PM

I am a 99er.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 04:33 PM

Only 15years, next month...


Subject: RE: Mudcat Poetry Corner
From: beardedbruce - PM
Date: 16 Apr 03 - 02:04 PM


I had been on earlier, but not posting. Seems like it was worthwhile just reading and getting decent information, back then.

I was involved with DT back when it was 4 floppies...

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 04:34 PM

BG, that's some really clever bats. Have they set up their own company yet?

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Max
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 04:51 PM

First posted on October 1, 1996 but I was a lurker for a year before that. :)

Then I started posting under a different name on January 4, 1997 at 1:41pm...

...or was that someone else? Memory is a bit fuzzy in them years... too much medicine.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 06:08 PM

Linn, your first post was 3 Aug 99.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Brakn
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 07:51 PM

June 1998 is the first that I can find thouh I did use other names like Mick and others before setling for brakn in Jan 1999.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 07:56 PM

Joe said above: Gee, looking at these comments, I get the impression that some of us must be REALLY old! No wonder we're so crotchety...

...I used to think that Max was just a young squirt, but now I'm thinking that "old and crotchety" applies even to him...my son is about the same age, and I tease him about his getting old and set in his ways while I'm still an irresponsible hippie. He's rather sensitive about that, but he's still far more responsible and mature than I am...

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 08:02 PM

October 1999. But I lurked for a while after meeting Bill Sables.

Mudgaurd! How are you Andreas?

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Mick Lowe
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 09:55 PM

Mick Brakn you are still on here.. wonderful. Coincidentally June 1998 was when I first started begging for lyrics from the good folks here on Mudcat.. Durham Gaol if I remember correctly.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Jos
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 05:21 AM

Am I missing something? Max spent a year lurking on a thread that didn't then exist? Strange things going on in cyberspace - and/or in the minds of posters-yet-to-be who were dreaming of wonders still to be created?

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: DaveRo
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 06:37 AM

I notice that some of the early denizens if mudcat also inhabited rec.music.folk - example. Did mudcat fulfil a need that r.m.f couldn't meet? Was usenet unavailable or unfamiliar to a new 'generation' of internet users? Just curious - I'm interested in how internet technologies evolve.

Here in the UK we had uk.music.folk but that died in the late 2000's. Some of the people on u.m.f are here on mudcat: rollcall.

I'd known of mudcat for years - it was often referred to on u.m.f - but I assumed it was an exclusively U.S. site and never followed the forum. It was only after the BBC closed their Folk and Acoustic messageboards that I looked in here.

I still prefer usenet to most web forums, and still use it daily - but sadly no longer for folk music.

Sorry - somewhat off topic, but hopefully of interest.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,John from Kemsing
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 06:59 AM

We have lost so many of the good ones in the past sixteen years, the banter, and craic between them was often entertaining.

We will never forget the late Don Thompson, KatLaughing. Ardmhacha and Fred McCormick.

May they all rest in peace.

Sometimes the cat is a little too serious now

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 07:12 AM

Am I missing something? Max spent a year lurking on a thread that didn't then exist? Strange things going on in cyberspace ....

Even stranger is the comment:

Then I started posting under a different name on January 4, 1997 at 1:41pm...

Are Max and Gargoyle one and the same?

DC

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 09:38 AM

I think I started using Mudcat (as a guest) at Bruce Olson's suggestion. When did he start?

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 10:35 AM

Vicki, GUEST Date: 12 Mar 18 - 03:59 PM :

You can join here, then send me a personal message, or find me on my website www.huntandallison.net and click "Contact Us," or just email me at huntandallison AT gmail . com- I have the information you seek.


And that's why I have never dropped the "Animaterra" from my name, even though I retired 3 years ago as director of the chorus I founded.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 10:36 AM

And this is my first post after signing up as a member, from 25 February 1999:

https://mudcat.org/detail.cfm?messages__Message_ID=60260

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 11:13 AM

DaveRo... alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.folk still has a semi-live group of posters. Right now there seems to be several posting some early "folk scare" stuff from the 60s... Kingston Trio, Tarriers, Limelighters, Baez... etc.
Depending on your provider that group can have things dating back several years.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: DaveRo
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 11:46 AM

Bill: I've never used binaries. My current ISP doesn't support them. uk.music.folk was used for much the same stuff as here: questions, event notifications, radio/TV alerts, bickering... I expect rec.music.folk was the same, but I didn't read it.

In the UK many ISPs stopped providing usenet about 10 years ago - I had to use eternal september for a while. Do US ISPs still offer it?

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 12:29 PM

DaveRo.. my ISP quit doing ANY newsgroups several years ago. I simply pay a few dollars a month to Giganews and get my access. There's so much competition that prices have come down...

It just depends on one's needs

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe_F
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 05:48 PM

AFAIK, Verizon still supports some newsgroups, but only ones in the hierarchies it considers respectable. I moved over to Eternal September when that happened, and still use it without difficulty.

rec.music.folk still exists, but there is almost nothing on it. It used to be lively. For a while, I thought of the Mudcat Cafe as the monster that ate rec.music.folk, but I have gotten used to it. I appreciate its complete archiving, but its unstructured threads still annoy me occasionally.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 06:25 PM

Max owns and runs Mudcat; Gargoyle was a member who got kicked out a long time ago though he has been invited back (he has a really sharp tongue; his posts are conspicuous by their tiny colored italicized signature lines). He still adds many fine music posts and seems to prefer the current arrangement.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,catyronwode
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 07:00 PM

I have been posting here on and off since 1998 -- but i have never created a log-in. At first i thought you had to be invited and to jump through approval-hoops to get a name, and i am naturally shy and diffident, so i just posted as GUEST.

To this day, most of the time i am just GUEST but sometimes i use guest-names that contain variants of my real name, such as catherineyronwode / catyronwode / catyron / catanna.

I found Mudcat via rec.music.folk in usenet, but i left usenet around 2002 due to its non-moderated condition. I post in all sorts of folk music, acoustic blues, model railroad, and folk magic forums and at Facebook, and i am an editor at Wikipedia and at a number of other wiki-like sites, including one on fortune telling tea cups. .

I come here less frequently than i go to my other hang-out sites, simply because i don't need lyrics all that often and i have never "made friends" here. Still, Mudcat is always my go-to site for lyrics help. The disorganization of the threads does bother me, but the site is FREE and OPEN, so i love it!

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 08:30 PM

Max owns and runs Mudcat; Gargoyle was a member who got kicked out a long time ago .............................(he has a really sharp tongue; his posts are conspicuous by their tiny colored italicized signature lines). ..............

I know that but Max said that he started posting under a different name. The only post that is listed for the time and date given was Gargoyle's first post as a member.

He did go on to say "...or was that someone else?". It would seem that Max was having a little joke.

DC

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: bbc
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 09:23 PM

My son David & I started the members pages in April, 1999, so I guess that counts as being around. I, mostly, lurk, now & follow the Mudcat Facebook page.

Best,

bbc

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 07:23 AM

I was around then.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 11:13 AM

I posted, but not regularly.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 03:45 AM

I was lurking here and Digitrad before but my first post as Little Robyn was January 2003. 2,796 posts later, I don't visit often but use the Facebook site instead.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 08:15 AM

I'm a baby here, still to celebrate my eleventh birthday. My first post was to ask Lucy in Bude (aka Hawker) about the upcoming 2007 Bude folk festival. Pleased to say that the Spring Bank Holiday folk festival in Bude (that's the bank holiday at the end of May) is still going strong. I see that Hawker hasn't posted here for quite a while.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 08:43 PM

I've been around since at least that long.   Abby Sale introduced me, I think. I've been on a remote fringe for the last 7 years or so, but I have peeped in during that time.

sian west wales
(although no longer west wales - back in the Niagara Peninsula now)

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 12:41 AM

Ah! Abby Sale - the source of lots of interesting tidbits.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 11:23 AM

Pretty sure I did a lot (the bulk) of my posting in like 2000 and thereabouts.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 01:09 PM

I’m still here after well north of twenty years.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 02:19 PM

By gum, I made my first post on 15 June 1999!

And I lurked a fair while before I dared break cover.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 02:48 PM

My first post was in January 2001, but I'd been lurking for at least a year. Mudcat had a "Golden Age" where it was a real community. Just being a 'Catter was like belonging to an exclusive club - only it wasn't exclusive. It was open to everyone. I miss those days, and I especially miss the many 'Catters who've passed on. At some point, things started deteriorating, and a lot of people, including me, dropped out and moved on to places like Facebook. Facebook will never replace the old Mudcat - but Mudcat as it is now is only a shadow of what it once was. I do stop by and lurk occasionally, just for old time's sake.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Helen
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 03:28 PM

Maryrrf, I agree.

There used to be a sense of community, and although there were sometimes differences of opinion, there was usually respect and often quirky humour, and different viewpoints of other people often created opportunities to possibly change our own viewpoints or broaden our knowledge.

I remember a lot of the people who have either sadly passed away, or moved away from Mudcat for various reasons.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 03:57 PM

'Sixteen years ago' from March 2018?
Yes, that would include me.

First post (other than as 'Guest') 27 Feb '02

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 04:16 PM

Well, I started in January 1997, but Bill D and a few others were before me.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,RJM
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 02:54 AM

Jim Carroll, and what a loss he is to this site
Gargoyle.
Captain Birdseye

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 03:29 AM

I wish Jim were back, too, but he couldn't live with our terms.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 10:29 AM

I predate 2004.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Wally Macnow
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 11:39 AM

I signed on as Guest about the same time that Dick Greenhaus got involved. He eventually bought Camsco Music from me.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 12:56 PM

Pretty sure I came here around 2003 or 2004, but the first few years under a different pseudonym. I’ve been posting as Backwoodsman since (I think) 2007.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 02:34 PM

Backwoodsman:

First posting as BW 13 May 2007. You can find it from 'personal pages => 'Click for your list of posted messages' => scroll to the bottom and click 'posts starting with oldest'

Cheers

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 03:36 PM

Thanks Nigel! I did think it was 2007 when I became ‘Backwoodsman’ (a response to Diane Easby’s vain attempts to insult me, a group of my friends, and Lincolnshire generally). I was someone else for some time before that.

I learn something new every day - thanks for today’s bit of education. ;-)

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 04:41 PM

Looking back, 1999 seems to be one of my first posts.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: RTim
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 05:24 PM

It seems my first post was 6th April 2006....so that is 17 years ago....

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 07:19 PM

One Hundred!