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 ------- > ******************************************************* > http://home3.inet.tele.dk/mcamara > http://www.gambia.dk > > **"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's > possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible"*** > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface > at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~