Messages on the old mego Yahoo group are still there.

[clemso]

Wow i stumbled upon my old joining message to the Mego yahoo group from Jan 20th, 2001. I'm amazed that these old messages are still on the data base. I wonder what other gems of mego info are still on there.
It also says that the Mego yahoo group was formed in March 20th 2000.

Yahoo! Groups

[Tothiro]

Well here you go?

Yahoo! Groups (that's message 16, but #17 is where it gets interesting!)

I wonder if anything from the Levy list is kicking around the nets?

[palitoy]

The yahoo lists were formed after the Levy list was disbanded in 1999. For a while there were two, one was run by Dean and one by Joe, Dean deleted his for reasons forgotten.

Keene has some old Levy list stuff and a consortium of us pay him a monthly fee to not release it.

I really don't want to read a flamewar I was in 16 years ago....

[VintageMike]

I actually remember when Yahoo had groups AND clubs before realizing they were redundant. Without going into detail (because it would be way OT) I actually built a strong presence for a site a ran at the time (early 2000's) based soley on leveraging those things. It's crazy to think how popular they were then and how obsolete they are now.

[Tothiro]

I really don't want to read a flamewar I was in 16 years ago....

Le lulz.
I could relive a really awesome Star Raiders 8" deal I got from Ron Pringle though...

[palitoy]

Le lulz.
I could relive a really awesome Star Raiders 8" deal I got from Ron Pringle though...

Ron Pringle was my first online pal! We did an amazing trade for Lords of Light figures that I still own.

[samurainoir]

So when did the list-serves evolve to the forum, and how many iterations of the forum were there?

[palitoy]

During our tenure at RTM, we just had one of those style of boards. It was horrible, the anymous posting meant tons of threats and stupidity, I hated it.

The only way to moderate it was to wipe it clean, which I had to do a couple of times.

When we moved away from RTM in 2000, Joe created the first ikonboard and within a couple of years the yahoogroup use slowly dwindled away. Joe and I still update and take care of it but it's nothing like it was.

[cjefferys]

Heh, I just visited the Mego Yahoo Group for the first time in years. I remember the RTM board, but never posted there, I hated it too. The Yahoo Group was cool though, but I mostly just lurked. It was pretty active back in the day though. I was browsing through it a bit now, and I did find some posts I made that I don't even remember making. I found a cool thread where we were talking about the Lili Ledy superheroes back in Jan 2001. I recognized some names who are still in the hobby and post here now, and there are a bunch of other folks who seem to be long gone. Nice trip through memory lane though, I'm really glad that it's still there for posterity's sake.

[drmego]

reliving the past

Kind of like an elderly relative.

Joe and I still update and take care of it but it's nothing like it was.

I just read some of the posts from 2002 about the WGSH silkscreen suits that someone was trying to pass off as vintage - who was that?

[EMCE Hammer]

Jonathan Moore - if only he'd used his powers for good.

[Megospidey]

I remember finding the yahoo group way back but not being able to wrap my mind around the concept of online message boards. I was still getting used to the new website I had found called ebay.