Chris_924s

John and Jen- this would be nothing without you.
This baby is growing just fine..
Thanks for all the hard work. It is truly appreciated. <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[cherrsagai]" title="" src="graemlins/drink.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[jumper]" title="" src="graemlins/jumper.gif" />

nine-44

Happy B-day, It's been great. Thanks

El Schön Toro

No Thank Youuuuu!!!! ;-)\

In all seriousness thanks to John and Jen for this wonderful thing that we call Rennlist!

Thanks Chris for bringing this Topic up!

pete944

Happy Birthday!!
For your present I sent in my membership renewal!
Thanks a lot, I don't know what I'd do without Rennlist.

goingboeing737

Could not own this wonderful car without all y'all's help. Thanks and happy birthday RENNLIST

ringo951

Yes, Thanks for all your hard work and dedication, John and Jen. Rennlist has truly made my P-car ownership a more enjoyable and rewarding experience through knowledge, friendship, support, and even a little clowning around. <img border="0" alt="[thumbsup]" title="" src="graemlins/bigok.gif" />

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RENNLIST!!!!!

<img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" /> To John and Jen, and to the rest of our big happy P-car family. <img border="0" alt="[burnout]" title="" src="graemlins/burnout.gif" />

Devia

Happy B-day, Rennlist, and thanks Jen and John! Without you existing online like this and the help of the other enthusiasts, I would still be looking for my Blk/Blk 944!

Thank you!

- Julie

Matt O.

I may be mistaken, but it's on the 28th, right?

Regardless, Happy Birthday!

-Matt

Enzo's Nightmare

Thanks John and Jen. Without you I would probably get more studying done and have a better chance of getting into medical school.

Toolmaster

All -

Neato Sentiment - but the big party should be on the 28th - which is the 5th anniversary of the initial email that John (and a MESS of other people) sent out announcing Porschelist.org, which then became Rennlist.

I was there then, and still am truely amazed today...

If you're interested - here's a copy of the FIRST Porschelist.org email - inviting everyone to join up.

Message follows:::

You are receiving this message because you have, in the past, participated in a Porsche dedicated mailing list. If you are no longer interested in Porsches and do not want to participate in a Porsche related mailing list in the future please delete this mail now. We will not bother you again.

We would like to inform you of a new, professionally maintained free Porsche mailing list and archive search service: PorscheList (http://www.porschelist.org).

After living with the ups and downs of the current lists for a couple of years, a group of PorscheFans members have gotten together, thinking, "We can do better". We are in no way wishing ill of the existing PorscheFans lists, or the list management. We simply believe that we can provide a better service.

We have collected donations from our small group, have purchased modern mailing list management software, and have professionally maintained servers set up with a high-speed Internet connection. Our group consists exclusively of Porsche enthusiasts. Four members of our group will always be on hand to ensure that there is an administrative presence on our lists at all times.

The PorscheList mailing lists so far include the following lists:

911

924/944

914

356

928

Boxster

Racing

Please review our charter by going to <a href="http://www.porschelist.org/charter.htm," target="_blank">http://www.porschelist.org/charter.htm,</a> and if you decide you would like to join us you can subscribe by following the directions on the web site (http://www.porschelist.org/faq.htm).

If you have questions about the lists or the web site please send an email message to listmasters@porschelist.org.

The following people have either assisted in the creation of the lists, or have kindly agreed to jump on the lists so that we can assure YOU that there will be a good technical presence!

(* = Founding member)

Pete Albrecht *

Bruce Anderson

Clark Anderson

Walker Aumann *

Jon Beatty *

Dirk Bergstrom

Eric Brown *

Jason Burkett

William S. Cline

Chris Cope *

Dave Darling

Mike Dayton

Peter De Meester *

John Dunkle *

Chip Evaul *

Walter Fricke

Greg Gastman *

Jouko Haapanen *

Bryan Henderson

Robert Herbert *

Samer Hijazi *

Dennis Kalma *

Farzaan Kassam *

Philip Katz *

Charlie Kindel *

Victor Lee *

Barry Lenoble

Denny Lindsay *

Ross Parker *

Mike Piera

Marc Reviel

William S. Cline

Craig Seko

Todd Serota *

Terry Shugart

Greg Skalla *

Vol Spalding *

Bob Tindel

Phil Tong

Tom Tweed *

Juha Vane *

Teresa Vickery

Andrew Warren

Steve Weiner

Mike Willis *

Scott Winders

We hope to see you on PorscheList soon,

The PorscheList Listmasters

adrial

Thank you to those few that started it all!!

Chris_924s

I wanted to start this thread early- only 1 more week to go!!

John D.

Hmmmm.......

Interesting thread.... Thanks Chris..!!!!

OK - here is the "Rest of the Story".....

Porschefans had an e-mail list, which was resurrected from the PorschePhiles days... PorschePhiles was pretty good - and boosted about 300 folks on a single e-mail list... When that "tanked", PorscheFans was born, and for a year or so - was a pretty good e-mail listserve, except for the fact - about once a week - it would crash and dump all the folks who were subscribed....

Anyway - three of us started chatting off-line and trying to contact the "PorscheFans Webmaster", to no avail - to see if we could assist him): Ross Parker (a wonderful person), Charlie Kindel (who was with Microsoft at the time) and me (I had a life/job as well).... Anyway - I told them I could program a list server and I'd contribute a few hours a month for system maintenance and my bandwidth from my company (a whopping 56KBs frame)...

After taking a look at some of the available list software, the three of us decided on Lyris (at $3000!!!) and it was decided that I'd try some test programming. The name of the first "list" was the "disgruntled" list - and we opened it up to a small group of "Founders" (those in the list above with an "*" next to their name). So, for the next few weeks the "3" grew to "24" folks, all assisting with beta testing, writing the "letter" that was sent out - and general moral support

Finally - the list (PorscheList) was actually launched unofficially on Wednesday (tomorrow), when Farzaan Kassam made a post to the PorscheFans list by mistake (sure, Farzaan - I still don't believe it was a "mistake" ). Anyway - I was doing the final programming on my i386 workstation - when it got REALLY SLOW. Seems that the 500 folks on the PorscheFans 944 list were all "subscribing"... The official letter went out this coming weekend, and was authored by Charlie Kindel. And yes - I used my then "new list server" to send that invitation to every address on the PorscheFans site. PorscheFans was decimated within two days, and I had about 3,000 P'car nuts on the PorscheList server. Funny thing - the PorscheList (now Rennlist) server never went off line, so folks began to expect a certain degree of integrity from the technology and a level of customer support they hadn't experienced from a free web site previously.

Finally - it has kind of evolved from those days through today. PorscheList became Rennlist and appears to continue at phenomenal growth. However, that growth is to your credit, certainly not Jen's nor to my credit. And the community you have forged within this site - I believe - is not paralleled anywhere else within the Internet. And again, that is to your credit....

My Best to all - and my thanks for the well wishes...!!! If I thought about it, I wonder if I knew today what those many years would bring - if I'd do it all over? Yea - I think I would <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" />

Kevin Baker

Rennlist. Thanks to everyone here!, John et al, thanks to you! With out you all I would have gone nuts (my wife thinks I have). Through this list I have met some wonderful people, PeteL, James, Ross, Keith, George, Micheal. Good people, good times, thanks again.

John D.

Thanks Kevin..!

And you are right - it's the folks that make Rennlist what it has become - and there are some terrific folks in these Forums/e-mail lists....

OH - BTW - Tell your wife I'm thinking about starting a Rennlist Forum for spouses/wives/Significant Others entitled "Rennlist Widows".. I know for a fact your wife isn't alone.. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />