Marc Virata ([email protected])
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:22:04 -0800 (PST)
>how long you've been here,
(on/off) since 93 as well, right after Zooropa's release. I think
I've had as many email addresses as years.
>what you like/dislike about
>the list and U2, why you keep coming back etc.
It's always been a great source of information and an outlet for
people like me to speak U2 when the world around you isn't necessarily
speaking the same language.
I also love how the list has always been larger than one person or any
group of people. People(s) who leave the list with a big sermon on a
soap box ranting against the list or people on it disappear and life
goes on (and generally they get back on the list anyways.)
And yet to me Wire is about the people, I had a hard time remembering
the big topics that have been discussed, but not the names around
them.
My Personal Best of Wire: (in no particular order)
- Meeting many of you in Vegas last year and being able to tell my
friends "I'm not nearly as much of a U2 freak as you think."
- "Julie L. Gold" writing ISHFWILF (might have been alt.music.u2)
- U2 Music Played in Strip Clubs Debate
- Fenian, the mean Irish *poet* who I don't think is on the list anymore
- Doing a Top 10 U2 Song List in 93 and getting a deluge of email from
total strangers all over the world
- A semi-frequent poster "Shannon"(?) posted having seen the "Red Hill
Mining Town" video then disappeared soon after. (Anyone ever find out
about this?)
- U2 Quantum Physics Debate
- Over 5 years and still not knowing if the "H" in Ciao John's last
name is silent. ;)
My Worst of Wire:
- Un-subbers on their Soapboxes
- Not knowing of anyone on the list from Vegas until I moved away from
there.
- Stupid thing's I've ranted/crusaded for (.sig's less than 5 lines,
Target Tours screwing over Las Vegans for Prop tix, there's plenty
more but I can't remember.) I will definately admit to many a
shortcomings.
I remember all the cool people much more but in the end Wire's always
been there, before Microsoft ran the world, back when promoting any
business on the Net was flameable and back when checking wire involved
the words UNIX and EMACS in front of a non-graphical blue screen. It
seems like Wire's the only thing I've found on the Net not to have
changed (that much.)
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