Thanks to the all the creators and management of the G-L, for providing us
the opportunity to debate our views on this site. I am very much impressed
with the kinds of debates going on now, without insults. Thanks a million,
for your well organized management. My special greetings to Momodou Camara
of Denmark.
I also commend sister Jabou for her wonderful contributions on the G-L. My
kudos to her!
May Allah bless us !
Elhajj.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Momodou Camara" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: Happy anniversary
> Malanding,
> Thanks for reminding us about this day. I have made a lot of cyber friends
whom
> I have never met in person and look forward to meeting most of you one
day.
>
> Back in the summer of 1995 when I got my first e-mail address, I sent a
mail to
> the soc.culture.african newsgroup with a request that I wanted to meet
Gambians
> out there in Cyberspace and received responses from two people. The two
were
> Latir and Katim who wrote to me that they had seen my mail and that they
were
> Gambians too. I was informed by Katim about a mailing list that he had
setup
> and I was welcome to join them. The names I remember at the time on the
list
> were Katim Touray, Malanding Jaiteh, Sarjo Santa Bojang, Amadou Janneh,
Janko
> Fofana, Tony Loum and Sarian Loum.
>
> I remember receiving mail from one Sarjo Santa Bojang of Seattle welcoming
me
> after sending my introduction and he told me that they were still
cellebrating
> the release of Windows 9% and this reminds me that we come a long way:-)
>
> By the way, here is a mail below from Tony Loum on the First
Anniversary.
>
> May Allah bless Gambia-L and all Gambians.
>
> Momodou Camara
>
> ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> Date sent: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:39:25 -0800 (PST)
> Send reply to: "A. Loum" <[log in to unmask]>
> From: "A. Loum" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing
List <gambia-
> [log in to unmask]>
> Subject: First anniversary
> Originally to: [log in to unmask]
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Let us take a time out for a moment from the hot and substantive debate
> topics to reflect on the fact that today, January 31st is the first
> anniversary of our listserv Gambia-l hosted by The University of
> Washington.
> Contrary to what many may have believed, I am not the original
> founder of Gambia-l. That honor belongs to Dr Katim Touray of Madison,
> Wisconsin. He first started a discussion group after the 1994 Jawara coup
> d'etat with a few friends. I believe that Dr Amadou Janneh was among the
> original few. I was introduced to Katim in 1995 by a Senegalese called
> Moussa Samb whom I met in the newsgroup soc.culture.africa. I think that
> I was the sixth member to join the group which Katim informally ran
> through his email account at The University of Wisconsin, Madison. By the
> beginning of 1996, we were informed by him that we needed a new host since
> some reasons, we would not be carried past the end of January. So, the
> search for a new host site started but with no luck and success. At the
> last resort, I contacted my University and got a pleasant and affirmative
> response. We brainstormed on the configurations that reflects the current
> setup of Gambia-l which was a collective decision from the relatively few
> members at the time. Those included the following: Amadou Janneh,
> Malanding Jaiteh, Latjor Know, Lamin Drammeh, Roddie Cole, Sammy Bruce
> Oliver, Sarian Loum, Momodou Camara, Abdou Touray, Morro Ceesay, Latjorr
> Ndow, Modou Kolley, Sarjo Bojang. If I should miss anybody's name,
> it is unintentional, please point that out to me and you will be
> recognized. Since, we decided that we wanted to be global and be visible
> world wide, we had to select a name for the list. Suggestions were
> tossed around ranging from Gambia-Net to others but finally settled on
> Gambia-L which was first suggested by Malanding Jaiteh, if my memory is
> correct. On April 8th 1996, Katim shocked everyone by abruptly resigning
> from the group over a philosohical disagreement with the rest of
> the members regarding the adoption of certain rules and regulation for the
> list. I was deeply saddened over his departure. He had worked so hard and
did
> so much with the technical configurations. I personally appealed to him to
> reverse his decision and return but was not successful. Hopefully,
sometimes in
> the future, he might relent. That void in the technical management was
> admirably taken over by Abdou Touray, who up to this date is doing an
> absolutely marvellous job.
> Gambia-l has come a long way from our humble beginnings. This
> date, one year ago, we were less than 20 members. Today we have over 180
> members enrolled. We can boast of membership in all the continents. All
> praise is due to you members for your interest in becoming involved and
> spreading the word of our existence to Gambians and friends of The Gambia.
> As you can see, we are still growing weekly.
> I am forwarding the very first posting in Gambia-l that took
> place exactly one year ago today. I hope that this brief piece our history
> will be of interest.
> Thanks
> Tony
>
>
> ========================================================================
>
> Anthony W Loum [log in to unmask]
> Supervisor, Business Administration Library 206-543-4360 voice
> 100 Balmer Hall 206-685-9392 fax
> University of Washington
> Box 353200
> Seattle, Wa.98195-3200
>
> =========================================================================
>
> PINE 3.95 MESSAGE TEXT <mail/[]> gambia-l Msg 1 of 1,208 TOP
>
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:00:24 -0800 (PST)
> From: "A. Loum" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> To: Multiple recipients of list GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: We did it !
>
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Congratulations to all of us and welcome to GAMBIA-L. I have added
> everybody to the list and you should all have received the standard
> welcome message. We have not yet added the additional piece drafted by
> Katim which will be done soon. I am taking this opportunity to take an
> inventory of the list. I want to make sure that everybody has been added
> on, in the event that some typos were made in the addresses. So, I am
> asking that everybody responds to the list and confirms that they
> received this message and the welcome. Katim and I will match it against
> what we have now to ensure that everybody is properly added on.
> We will finalize the administrative functions soon. So, I am
> asking Katim to continue taking the lead role to ensure the smooth
> functioning of GAMBIA-L.
> Again, let us congratulate ourselves for sticking
> together to lead ourselves to even greater heights.
> Sarjo, I have made sure that Modou Kolley is included. I
> will give you a call later on tonight.
> Katim, I have sent you two messages on your calshp
> address. I hope that you will receive them before the deadline of the
> termination, otherwise I will forward them again tomorrow.
> Thanks
> Tony
>
>
> ========================================================================
>
> Anthony W Loum [log in to unmask]
> Supervisor, Business Administration Library 206-543-4360 voice
> 100 Balmer Hall 206-685-9392 fax
> University of Washington
> Box 353200
> Seattle, Wa.98195-3200
>
> =========================================================================
>
>
>
>
> ------- End of forwarded message -------
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