Re: What Prompted This?! Fw: Why FWD?

["Jouko Haapanen" <joukoh@vtoy.fi>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy C Salazar II <tsal2@juno.com>


  --snippage--

>Oh, and for the record, I believe Mr. Simones named this list the
>"quattro List" because Audi has a thing about people using their name.

Ironically, the list was started in the summer of '91 by my brother Tom, who
at the time had two Volkswagens and no quattro or Audi of any sort, the rest
of the message being an excerpt from the archives:

This welcome message isn't the first (or second, or third) message for the
mailing list, but I thought I should do it anyway.I'm Tom Haapanen, and
while I don't own a Quattro of any kind (only 2 VWs), I have been following
them since the WRC debut back in '81.  I thought it was about time there was
a place to talk about them, and I'm happy to see that quite a few other
people think so, too.
Now ... what's appropriate for this list:
        * Rallying discussions (WRC, SCCA, ...)
        * Racing discussions (Trans-Am, IMSA GTO, GTCC, ...)
        * Technical discussions
        * Buying or (hopefully not) selling a Quattro
        * Driving experiences        * New product info
        * ... and any other quattro-related information
The inappropriate list is much shorter:
        * Flaming and obnoxious behaviour
        * Discussions about the Espace Quadra
        * ... and any non-quattro-related topics
Now that that's over with, I'll make my next posting a Who's Who of the
mailing list.

Bruce Hochuli hochuli@sj.ate.slb.com  '86 Audi Quattro
Deepak Vaidya  dv@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu  '88 Chevrolet Celebrity
Eric Fluhr  gt6493c@prism.gatech.edu  '85 Audi Coupe GT
Eric Nahum nahum@cs.umass.edu  '86 Audi 4000 quattro
Eliot Dudley edudley@rodan.acs.syr.edu  '84 Audi 4000 quattro   '86 Audi
4000 quattro
Eliot Lim  eliot@lanmola.engr.washington.edu  '90 Audi V8 quattro
Glen Powell  powell@interlan.interlan.com  '85 Audi Quattro   '73 Pontiac
Firebird
Jacob Kornerup kornerup@cs.utexas.edu
Jonathan Swaby  jfs10@psuvm.psu.edu
Mike Dobosz dobosz_m@wfooff.enet.dec.com  '85 Volkswagen Quantum
Mike Finegan mfinegan@uceng.uc.edu  '86 Audi 4000 quattro
Paul Timmerman ptimmer@kathy.jpl.nasa.gov  '82 Audi Quattro
Roger Sanderson rsanders@sunee.waterloo.edu  '86 Audi 4000 quattro
Tarl Neustaedter tarl@apache.sw.stratus.com '91 Audi 80 quattro
Steve Thompson  olin@cheme.tn.cornell.edu    '86 Audi 4000 quattro '83
Porsche 928
Thomas Szabo tms@rsch.oclc.org
Ti Kan  ti@bazooka.altos.com
Tom Haapanen  tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu  '90 Volkswagen Golf GTI 16V  '86
Volkswagen Golf GTI
Tom Huschilt  tom2@mims-iris.waterloo.edu  '84 Audi Coupe GT  '83 Audi
Quattro  '85 Volkswagen Window Van  '71 Volkswagen Type 3