[sumo] A Happy Hatsubasho! to you all.

[Lon Howard]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Lon Howard wrote:

>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:07 PM, max wrote:
>
>> Thank you all for the warm "welcome back" message. I'm glad to  
>> know that I haven't been a forgotten toshiyori, yet.
>>
>> If I remember collectly, this ML has been in the existance for 15  
>> years, or this could be the 15th year of existance.
>>
>> Yahoo! founders were among us, from their famous workstation (SUN)  
>> terminals of Akebono and Konishiki at Stanford Univ.
>>
>> I wonder when this ML started, anyone?
>
> The archives (http://www.banzuke.com/ArchiveIndex.html) show the  
> oldest month to be May 1994.  In looking at the list of  
> contributors on the very first page, the only name I recognized was  
> Chris Basten, who started the SML, I think (could be wrong about  
> that, though).  So we would be in the 14th year right now, if these  
> records are complete.

That should be May 1993, and we would be in the 15th year, after  
all.  So as usual, Abe-san's memory is better than my research!

LH