Posted by Joe Cimoch on February 13, 1999 at 07:38:01:
Yes this is the 10th installment of the Power Wagon Forum.
A Little History
From its humble beginnings on Jan 19th 1997, this forum seems to have taken on a life of its own.
The forum started from a suggestion by Peter Sprouse that communicating ideas, questions, etc. about Power Wagons could be useful and fun. I emailed a friend of Peter's who had set up a mail list for a group of Spelunkers (Spelling???), cave explorers. He gave me a lot of good suggestions. Another friend Jack (www.corvette.net) suggested looking at I-Depth. They provide Forums for a monthly fee. I used I-depth for about a month, and then found out that the script they use is available for free, and setting it up was fairly simple.
I used the scripts on the original site at tiac.net. Ended up abandoning TIAC when they started charging too much for traffic (visits to the site).
The first forum took 1 year to have about 1800 messages posted.
Forum #9 took about 6 weeks to have 1200 messages posted.
I guess thats progress. Now if I could only find an automatic way to archive the messages.
Enjoy.