I started the message board in the spring of 1997. It was one of the freebies online. As Danny said, we started getting a great deal of Russian spam. And most of the people in the community at the time were not interested in a message board that required them to register and give personal information. There ws not sense in dividing up an already small community of people!! We were all very luck to have such a great computer whiz among the group who stepped up to the plate to take it from there. You would not believe how much it has grown since then!!!! thaks again!