[Ipg-smz] [Ipg-l] Roll out the red carpet for... Mark Brownstein

[Stephen Satchell]

On 9/30/19 3:43 PM, Mark Brownstein via Ipg-smz wrote:
> I hope you're doing well -- it's great to see  your name here. (Why the
> hell didn't I join this group in 1996?)

A little capsule history.  A bunch of us (yes, I am a "founding member")
took over a news group, much to the disgust of other readers of the
newsgroup.  So SVJN put up the first iteration of the IPG mailing list.
 We've been growing ever since.

What was the trigger event?  The "RIMM JOB" that was the cover story for
Time magazine.  It was so full of misinformation about the Internet that
it just struck us as so wrong.  We also had the fear that newbies on the
Internet beat wouldn't have a trusted touchstone to help them learn
about the place.

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