A search on google of
'rec.gardens.orchids" charter
produced this link:

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

It's a long link but on it you can find the 'pre-history' of rgo.
Important dates include
the proposal to create it by Robert Hill and the charter (Thu Mar 31 1994)

The final call to vote which passed (219 yes to 31 no) and thereby brought
rgo into being on it's first university occurred Tue May 31 1994)

The list of who voted and how they voted can be found here. I recognize two
names immediately, Rob Halgren and Peter Lin and a few others on closer
inspection. Interesting reading for those who can't sleep...

The oldest thread I can find in rgo's archive on google is dated jun 10th
1994
Rob Halgren contributed to this thread on June 11 1994

Rod C Venger/Venger's Orchids first post was apparently Sept 8 1994

Aaron Hicks' first post I can find is nov 23rd 1994

Ray's first thread seems to be Dec 30th 1994

K Barrett, 10/11/96

Kenni Judd, 10/22/96

WNeptune, 05/06/97

Mick AKA HBI, 06/19/97

Tennis, 8/22/97

My first post seems to have been Sept 28th 1997. I'm just baby.

profpam, Feb 10th 1999

there are more but I'm keeping them to myself

Al
a search engine is a terrrible thing to waste...


"J Fortuna" wrote in message
...
Having just accidentally made a fool of myself by not realizing that Rob
Halgren has been part of rgo since the very beginning of its history (see

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...u.edu&rnum=183),
I thought that maybe it is time for a humble request:

Could those of you, who have been around rgo for a while, please share
with
those of us, who like me know very little about its history, something
about
how rgo was started, who has been around for like forever, who isn't
around
anymore but you wish they were + any stories that are especially memorable
from rgo history, anything you would advise us to look for in the archives
perhaps? For example: I once spent an entire evening ROFL while reading a
selection of the threads that Mick Fournier has been involved in over
time.

Thanks -- and sorry to be too ignorant and too talkative at times

Joanna

Al wrote:

The oldest thread I can find in rgo's archive on google is dated jun 10th
1994
Rob Halgren contributed to this thread on June 11 1994



Whooo!!! I bet it was just as inane as the rest of my posts...

Rob

--
Rob's Rules: http://www.msu.edu/~halgren
1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit

I traced mine back to March 96, when I was orwell at ccnet dot com. Replying
to Halgren that I couldn't grow B nodosa either.

Now I can.

Thanks rgo!

K Barrett
*G*

"Al" wrote in message
...
A search on google of
'rec.gardens.orchids" charter
produced this link:


http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache...d.com/software
/ftp.landfield.com/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec/rec.gardens.orchids+%2
2rec.gardens.orchids%22+charter&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

It's a long link but on it you can find the 'pre-history' of rgo.
Important dates include
the proposal to create it by Robert Hill and the charter (Thu Mar 31 1994)

The final call to vote which passed (219 yes to 31 no) and thereby brought
rgo into being on it's first university occurred Tue May 31 1994)

The list of who voted and how they voted can be found here. I recognize
two
names immediately, Rob Halgren and Peter Lin and a few others on closer
inspection. Interesting reading for those who can't sleep...

The oldest thread I can find in rgo's archive on google is dated jun 10th
1994
Rob Halgren contributed to this thread on June 11 1994

Rod C Venger/Venger's Orchids first post was apparently Sept 8 1994

Aaron Hicks' first post I can find is nov 23rd 1994

Ray's first thread seems to be Dec 30th 1994

K Barrett, 10/11/96

Kenni Judd, 10/22/96

WNeptune, 05/06/97

Mick AKA HBI, 06/19/97

Tennis, 8/22/97

My first post seems to have been Sept 28th 1997. I'm just baby.

profpam, Feb 10th 1999

there are more but I'm keeping them to myself

Al
a search engine is a terrrible thing to waste...


"J Fortuna" wrote in message
...
Having just accidentally made a fool of myself by not realizing that Rob
Halgren has been part of rgo since the very beginning of its history
(see


http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...u.edu&rnum=183),
I thought that maybe it is time for a humble request:

Could those of you, who have been around rgo for a while, please share
with
those of us, who like me know very little about its history, something
about
how rgo was started, who has been around for like forever, who isn't
around
anymore but you wish they were + any stories that are especially
memorable
from rgo history, anything you would advise us to look for in the
archives
perhaps? For example: I once spent an entire evening ROFL while reading
a
selection of the threads that Mick Fournier has been involved in over
time.

Thanks -- and sorry to be too ignorant and too talkative at times

Joanna

Yes, involved in the very first thread you were!.... and the author of the
3rd or 4th article ever posted in this newsgroup.

"Rob's rules to live by" (labled as such, anyway) first appeared in your sig
file on March 12th 1996. I was able to locate many distinct mutations.
Apparently it is a work in progress. :-) LOL

I don't know from inane, but you can call your own posts anything you want,
not that I am telling anybody what they can or can not say.... :-D

Al
You want history!? You can't handle history!

"Rob Halgren" wrote in message
...
Al wrote:

The oldest thread I can find in rgo's archive on google is dated jun 10th
1994
Rob Halgren contributed to this thread on June 11 1994



Whooo!!! I bet it was just as inane as the rest of my posts...

Rob

--
Rob's Rules: http://www.msu.edu/~halgren
1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit

Here's the original rules:

Rob
************************************************** **************************
*
Rob's rules to live by: | Send me
seeds! Will flask
(1) There is always room for one more orchid. | for food.
(2) There is always room for two more orchids. |
(3) There is no rule 3. | Don't go
to grad school!
(3a) When one has insufficient credit to buy |
more orchids, obtain more credit. | Future Starving
PhD.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~rhalgren | Why yes, I am a
molecular
| biologist...
************************************************** *************************

K Barrett

"Rob Halgren" wrote in message
...

Whooo!!! I bet it was just as inane as the rest of my posts...

Rob

--
Rob's Rules: http://www.msu.edu/~halgren
1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit

I should have recognized orwell as you, but I was skimming quickly, because
I do have something like a life here.... I was pretty sure profpam must go
furthur back too.

Anyway, incase anybody missed this fact, rgo's 10th birthday is May 31st
2004. (It got brought home from the hospital on June 10, 1994 but it was
born on 5/31/1994)

"K Barrett" wrote in message
news:wpBSb.60180$U%5.351256@attbi_s03...
I traced mine back to March 96, when I was orwell at ccnet dot com.
Replying
to Halgren that I couldn't grow B nodosa either.

Now I can.

Thanks rgo!

K Barrett
*G*

"Al" wrote in message
...
A search on google of
'rec.gardens.orchids" charter
produced this link:



http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache...d.com/software

/ftp.landfield.com/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec/rec.gardens.orchids+%2
2rec.gardens.orchids%22+charter&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

It's a long link but on it you can find the 'pre-history' of rgo.
Important dates include
the proposal to create it by Robert Hill and the charter (Thu Mar 31
1994)

The final call to vote which passed (219 yes to 31 no) and thereby
brought
rgo into being on it's first university occurred Tue May 31 1994)

The list of who voted and how they voted can be found here. I recognize
two
names immediately, Rob Halgren and Peter Lin and a few others on closer
inspection. Interesting reading for those who can't sleep...

The oldest thread I can find in rgo's archive on google is dated jun
10th
1994
Rob Halgren contributed to this thread on June 11 1994

Rod C Venger/Venger's Orchids first post was apparently Sept 8 1994

Aaron Hicks' first post I can find is nov 23rd 1994

Ray's first thread seems to be Dec 30th 1994

K Barrett, 10/11/96

Kenni Judd, 10/22/96

WNeptune, 05/06/97

Mick AKA HBI, 06/19/97

Tennis, 8/22/97

My first post seems to have been Sept 28th 1997. I'm just baby.

profpam, Feb 10th 1999

there are more but I'm keeping them to myself

Al
a search engine is a terrrible thing to waste...


"J Fortuna" wrote in message
...
Having just accidentally made a fool of myself by not realizing that
Rob
Halgren has been part of rgo since the very beginning of its history
(see



http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...u.edu&rnum=183),
I thought that maybe it is time for a humble request:

Could those of you, who have been around rgo for a while, please share
with
those of us, who like me know very little about its history, something
about
how rgo was started, who has been around for like forever, who isn't
around
anymore but you wish they were + any stories that are especially
memorable
from rgo history, anything you would advise us to look for in the
archives
perhaps? For example: I once spent an entire evening ROFL while
reading
a
selection of the threads that Mick Fournier has been involved in over
time.

Thanks -- and sorry to be too ignorant and too talkative at times

Joanna

1994-10-22 is the first one *I* can find. Somebody else typed that March
12th 1996 date.

"Al" wrote in message
...
"Rob's rules to live by" (labled as such, anyway) first appeared in your
sig
file on March 12th 1996.

Well the spacing got fouled up, the side bars should read 'Send me seeds!
Will flask for food', 'Don't go to grad school', 'Future Starving PhD' and
my personal favorite 'Why yes, I am a molecular biologist.'

K

"K Barrett" wrote in message
news:EtBSb.60198$U%5.351939@attbi_s03...
Here's the original rules:

Rob

************************************************** **************************
*
Rob's rules to live by: | Send
me
seeds! Will flask
(1) There is always room for one more orchid. | for food.
(2) There is always room for two more orchids. |
(3) There is no rule 3. | Don't
go
to grad school!
(3a) When one has insufficient credit to buy |
more orchids, obtain more credit. | Future
Starving
PhD.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~rhalgren | Why yes, I am a
molecular
| biologist...

************************************************** *************************

K Barrett

"Rob Halgren" wrote in message
...

Whooo!!! I bet it was just as inane as the rest of my posts...

Rob

--
Rob's Rules: http://www.msu.edu/~halgren
1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit

And I *Think* this is the first announcement of AJ Hicks' Orchid Seedbank
Project.

K
(don't know much about hist-o-ree)

From: Aaron Hicks )
Subject: Orchid Seedbank
Newsgroups: rec.gardens.orchids
Date: 1996/11/17


Orchidophiles!
We are considering opening an orchid seedbank. Having realized the
demand for orchid seed, we're going to try to fill the niche.

Anybody interested in comments or reviewing or policies are
welcomed to e-mail me at and ask for more information,
or *heh* sending us comments.
We would deal in species only, and work on a credit-for-donation
basis (initially around 4:1 or 5:1, so that for ever 4 or 5 packets of
seed donated, the donor would have their choice of 1 free packet). Packets
would have enough seed for 6-10 flasks of 100 seedlings, but we've not
been able to work out the germination and viability problems yet.
Packets would sell for about $2 packet, more or less for "bulk"
seed (donations over 250,000 seed, which would not follow the 4:1 or
5:1 ratio, due to the large volume), or for particularly rare or uncommon
varieties or species.

-AJHicks
Wonk
Socorro, NM
ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/orchids ---- orchid culture sheets!

Dear GOD!!! His FAQs still WORK!! Quick!! COPY THEM!!!

K

"K Barrett" wrote in message
news:AYBSb.60334$U%5.353897@attbi_s03...
And I *Think* this is the first announcement of AJ Hicks' Orchid Seedbank
Project.

K
(don't know much about hist-o-ree)

From: Aaron Hicks )
Subject: Orchid Seedbank
Newsgroups: rec.gardens.orchids
Date: 1996/11/17


Orchidophiles!
We are considering opening an orchid seedbank. Having realized the
demand for orchid seed, we're going to try to fill the niche.

Anybody interested in comments or reviewing or policies are
welcomed to e-mail me at and ask for more information,
or *heh* sending us comments.
We would deal in species only, and work on a credit-for-donation
basis (initially around 4:1 or 5:1, so that for ever 4 or 5 packets of
seed donated, the donor would have their choice of 1 free packet). Packets
would have enough seed for 6-10 flasks of 100 seedlings, but we've not
been able to work out the germination and viability problems yet.
Packets would sell for about $2 packet, more or less for "bulk"
seed (donations over 250,000 seed, which would not follow the 4:1 or
5:1 ratio, due to the large volume), or for particularly rare or uncommon
varieties or species.

-AJHicks
Wonk
Socorro, NM
ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/orchids ---- orchid culture sheets!

Dear GOD!!! His FAQs still WORK!! Quick!! COPY THEM!!!

K

"K Barrett" wrote in message
news:AYBSb.60334$U%5.353897@attbi_s03...
And I *Think* this is the first announcement of AJ Hicks' Orchid Seedbank
Project.

K
(don't know much about hist-o-ree)

From: Aaron Hicks )
Subject: Orchid Seedbank
Newsgroups: rec.gardens.orchids
Date: 1996/11/17


Orchidophiles!
We are considering opening an orchid seedbank. Having realized the
demand for orchid seed, we're going to try to fill the niche.

Anybody interested in comments or reviewing or policies are
welcomed to e-mail me at and ask for more information,
or *heh* sending us comments.
We would deal in species only, and work on a credit-for-donation
basis (initially around 4:1 or 5:1, so that for ever 4 or 5 packets of
seed donated, the donor would have their choice of 1 free packet). Packets
would have enough seed for 6-10 flasks of 100 seedlings, but we've not
been able to work out the germination and viability problems yet.
Packets would sell for about $2 packet, more or less for "bulk"
seed (donations over 250,000 seed, which would not follow the 4:1 or
5:1 ratio, due to the large volume), or for particularly rare or uncommon
varieties or species.

-AJHicks
Wonk
Socorro, NM
ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/orchids ---- orchid culture sheets!

Al,

You obviously need more to occupy your time!

--

Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info!

.. . . . . . . . . . .
"Al" wrote in message
...
A search on google of
'rec.gardens.orchids" charter
produced this link:


http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

It's a long link but on it you can find the 'pre-history' of rgo.
Important dates include
the proposal to create it by Robert Hill and the charter (Thu Mar 31 1994)

The final call to vote which passed (219 yes to 31 no) and thereby brought
rgo into being on it's first university occurred Tue May 31 1994)

The list of who voted and how they voted can be found here. I recognize
two
names immediately, Rob Halgren and Peter Lin and a few others on closer
inspection. Interesting reading for those who can't sleep...

The oldest thread I can find in rgo's archive on google is dated jun 10th
1994
Rob Halgren contributed to this thread on June 11 1994

Rod C Venger/Venger's Orchids first post was apparently Sept 8 1994

Aaron Hicks' first post I can find is nov 23rd 1994

Ray's first thread seems to be Dec 30th 1994

K Barrett, 10/11/96

Kenni Judd, 10/22/96

WNeptune, 05/06/97

Mick AKA HBI, 06/19/97

Tennis, 8/22/97

My first post seems to have been Sept 28th 1997. I'm just baby.

profpam, Feb 10th 1999

there are more but I'm keeping them to myself

Al
a search engine is a terrrible thing to waste...


"J Fortuna" wrote in message
...
Having just accidentally made a fool of myself by not realizing that Rob
Halgren has been part of rgo since the very beginning of its history
(see


http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...u.edu&rnum=183),
I thought that maybe it is time for a humble request:

Could those of you, who have been around rgo for a while, please share
with
those of us, who like me know very little about its history, something
about
how rgo was started, who has been around for like forever, who isn't
around
anymore but you wish they were + any stories that are especially
memorable
from rgo history, anything you would advise us to look for in the
archives
perhaps? For example: I once spent an entire evening ROFL while reading
a
selection of the threads that Mick Fournier has been involved in over
time.

Thanks -- and sorry to be too ignorant and too talkative at times

Joanna

I just read the funny.faq from this site out loud (to my husband) from
beginning to end. In some parts my speech got a bit too blurred with
laughter and I had trouble reading the text through the watering eyes. :-)
Joanna

"K Barrett" wrote in message
news:10CSb.192117$na.321654@attbi_s04...
Dear GOD!!! His FAQs still WORK!! Quick!! COPY THEM!!!

K

"K Barrett" wrote in message
news:AYBSb.60334$U%5.353897@attbi_s03...
And I *Think* this is the first announcement of AJ Hicks' Orchid
Seedbank
Project.

K
(don't know much about hist-o-ree)

From: Aaron Hicks )
Subject: Orchid Seedbank
Newsgroups: rec.gardens.orchids
Date: 1996/11/17


Orchidophiles!
We are considering opening an orchid seedbank. Having realized the
demand for orchid seed, we're going to try to fill the niche.

Anybody interested in comments or reviewing or policies are
welcomed to e-mail me at and ask for more information,
or *heh* sending us comments.
We would deal in species only, and work on a credit-for-donation
basis (initially around 4:1 or 5:1, so that for ever 4 or 5 packets of
seed donated, the donor would have their choice of 1 free packet).
Packets
would have enough seed for 6-10 flasks of 100 seedlings, but we've not
been able to work out the germination and viability problems yet.
Packets would sell for about $2 packet, more or less for "bulk"
seed (donations over 250,000 seed, which would not follow the 4:1 or
5:1 ratio, due to the large volume), or for particularly rare or
uncommon
varieties or species.

-AJHicks
Wonk
Socorro, NM
ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/orchids ---- orchid culture sheets!

K Barrett ) spaketh thusly:

Dear GOD!!! His FAQs still WORK!! Quick!! COPY THEM!!!

It's awful nice they didn't kill them at New Mexico Tech; as it
is, I'm pretty sure I lost one or two during a major disk crash they had
(which is why the dates are all the same- 11/19/98, which is when they
were restored from tape. Still, one or two of the files I found were
empty, and for some reason they weren't archived. I carried a copy of the
FAQs when I left NMT in '00 on a Zip disk; they're also archived on the
curernt OSP page (www.orchidseed.com), under "Technical Data" (in the "A
Mirror of the New Mexico Tech orchid info FTP site").

"Rule number one: No pets. If you have any cats, they must be
removed from the house. Orchids are allergic to cats. Some dogs are okay,
others are not, but it's just as well to remove them all, in case the
orchids don't enjoy a different kind of bark."

You can't get that kind of humor without being a sleep-deprived
graduate student. You really can't. And that's a good thing.

No e-mail to the address in the header. It's a spam trap.

-AJHicks
Chandler, AZ

On 31 Jan 2004 17:57:46 -0700, (Aaron Hicks)
wrote:

K Barrett ) spaketh thusly:

Dear GOD!!! His FAQs still WORK!! Quick!! COPY THEM!!!

It's awful nice they didn't kill them at New Mexico Tech; as it
is, I'm pretty sure I lost one or two during a major disk crash they had
(which is why the dates are all the same- 11/19/98, which is when they
were restored from tape. Still, one or two of the files I found were
empty, and for some reason they weren't archived. I carried a copy of the
FAQs when I left NMT in '00 on a Zip disk; they're also archived on the
curernt OSP page (www.orchidseed.com), under "Technical Data" (in the "A
Mirror of the New Mexico Tech orchid info FTP site").

"Rule number one: No pets. If you have any cats, they must be
removed from the house. Orchids are allergic to cats. Some dogs are okay,
others are not, but it's just as well to remove them all, in case the
orchids don't enjoy a different kind of bark."

You can't get that kind of humor without being a sleep-deprived
graduate student. You really can't. And that's a good thing.

No e-mail to the address in the header. It's a spam trap.

-AJHicks
Chandler, AZ

And all these years I thought the rule was if you grew Orchids
you had to have 2 cats minimum. I think well over 80% of the
orchid people I know have cats. Not necessarily free to tour the
gh or orchid room. They just have them sharing the house.

SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php