Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari List of olde

[Paul Bennett (pbennett]

Thanks, Steve,  for that bit of history.  Incidently, not having a space crunch 
I've left my Hallett99 pictures up if anyone is interested in reminisicing -
http://www.sites.onlinemac.com/pbennett/cavalino.htm
I recall making name tags but I regret not captioning names on the pictures.
Highly memorable trip...24h leMans race, Maranello, MagnyCour F1 race.
p



>I don't remember if I ever told the story of starting the F-List, but
>here goes a quick rundown of how I remember it :)
>
>The idea started in mid 1995.  I was a member of the original Porsche
>List (before it was Rennlist, and still run by one guy that raced 914s),
>and often though about starting a mailing list for Ferrari owners. On a
>trip up to Colorado with some college friends I was telling them about
>it and they said that I could start a list using my school email
>account: So, over 14.4 modem, I started Ferrari [at] nmt.edu.  Within a few
>months there were about 50 subscribers and I met with a couple of them
>at the F50 introduction at the Texas World Speedway (I think it was Ric
>Rainbolt and Gian Luigi Buitoni).
>
>[btw, interesting side note, Paul Frame was the one that got the 1st
>F50, and now he's currently in jail for fraud (or accounting
>'irregularities') http://sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr18177.htm
>http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2005/10/24/daily46.html ]
> 
>It grew from there, and peaked with over 1000 members after it was
>mentioned several times in Forza magazine and popular website.  It
>stabilized around 800 after that. During that peak, the school said it
>was taking up too much bandwidth, so I found a host that was "cheap" and
>moved it to softhome.net. It was a little pricey, but there were many
>list donations in '99 that paid for pretty much all of the costs.  
>
>In 2000/01, after talking with Steve Jenkins about developing a website
>with him, we had a dedicated server that I could use to host the site,
>so FerrariList.com was actually put to use.  I also went to Hallet 2000
>(the second year) and met all the listers that were there (including you
>Rick :).
>
>Joe Martz was the one that brought his yellow Diablo (he had a black
>Countach for Hallett 99)  You can see Joe on the History Channel and
>Discovery whenever there is a special about Los Alamos - in addition to
>being a nuclear scientist, he's one of their PR reps and tells great
>stories. I'm not sure if he's on the list yet, but I did see him a month
>ago at a local FCA-NM Region meeting in Santa Fe (in a silver Diablo).
>
>Now that the list is off of Majordomo, it's much easier to manage. It's
>hosted at TigerTech.net now - so I don't have to manage spam, email,
>etc. I'll be moving the old site to the new server, with archives, in a
>few weeks - so searching the archives will be back online.
>
>Forza!
>-steve