I knew I had it somewhere...

I believe that the July 1996 date is when we went from vanagon@lenti
to vanagon@gerry. That would jive with the creation of the
vanagon@onelist group (which became vanagon@egroups which became
vanagon@yahoogroups) to get through the migration.

Jim

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ken Hooper
Date: February 7, 2004 12:31:39 PM PST

Subject: Re: [T2-VB-admins] List split?

When were the list splits?

Vanagon>T2>Vintagebus

Vanagon April 1994

Vanagon/type2 July 1996

Vintagebus ran independently for some time before the official
type2/vintagebus fork, not sure when Thom dates "official inception".

Begin forwarded message:

From: Matt Roberds
Date: February 7, 2004 5:57:40 PM PST

Subject: Re: [T2-VB-admins] List split?

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Ken Hooper wrote:
Vintagebus ran independently for some time before the official
type2/vintagebus fork, not sure when Thom dates "official inception".

When I asked this a while back, I came up with the answer of June 1998
for VintageBus.

The oldest messages in the VB archive are dated 20 June 1998, and they
aren't the usual "testing testing 1 2 3" messages associated with a new
list, so it probably started up at least a few days before then.

Looking up http://vintagebus.com/lists.html on web.archive.org shows
the first mention of the VB list on 16 May 1998.  The page says it
was updated on 14 May 1998.

Matt Roberds
One of the type2.com admins