The opinionated ramblings and muses of a weary web victim.
A Long Time Moderating
Published on July 25, 2008 By Jafo In WinCustomize News

A few months ago I went in search of an early email about some skinning issue or other...and found these....

-----Original Message-----
From: Johanne Chaine [mailto:xxx@stardock.com]
Sent:
Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:31 AM
To: Paul Martin; iMike; shoggot@xxx; Renato de Carvalho Veras; Patrick Ford; Migellito; David Knott; Brad Wardell; Kris Kwilas; Snoopsoft; Angela Marshall
Subject: Welcome to our new wizop

 He is already a leader in the community!

 I would like to welcome abord Jafo as our new wizop, I'm sure he will do a great job on WinCustomize.

 Congratulation JAFO you deserve it!

 Regards
Johanne Chainé
@stardock.com
https://www.wincustomize.com/

....and thought...."blimey, 7 years".

So a little more searching....and...

-----Original Message-----
From: Jafo [mailto:martinp@smart.net.au]
Sent:
Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:45 AM
To: xxx@hotmail.com
Subject: WinCustomize: Upload Notification

 

Dear xxx,

Thank you for your recent upload of your Win XP Red Moon for DesktopX.
Unfortunately your upload has not met our guidelines and has been rejected. Reason...XP theme related.
However we do look forward to your future submissions.


Sincerely,
The WinCustomize Staff

 

My very first official moderation/email thingie....

Nothing much has changed [other than me not being able to reset this font size - probably another bug called 'Jafo']...

 

It's been a fun 7 years.....the community has grown from strength to strength...seen some new faces...and some oldies return.....and the Community here at Wincustomize.com is well past 3.2 Million and counting, a far cry from when I joined - there were only 22 ....

So, happy aniversary to me, and let's all look forward to the next 7 years of Wincustomize.com and the eternal search for a new, sexier GUI skin....

 


Comments (Page 3)
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on Jul 26, 2008
Congrats!!! and doing a great job at it too              
on Jul 26, 2008
happy anniversary JAFO
on Jul 26, 2008
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
on Jul 26, 2008
Congratulations Paul!

Even tho I rec'd several emails like the 2nd one you posted I still want to thank you for all your 'efferts' here.

on Jul 26, 2008
Congratulations man!!   
on Jul 26, 2008
Congrats. Spell check....Spell check....Spell check....
on Jul 26, 2008
on Jul 27, 2008
Congratulations, Paul. Without your patient and eloquent style, this place would be alot poorer. A big thank you for all the thousands of hours you've put into Wincustomize. It takes a huge sacrifice - but I guess it's been a 'labour of love' - most of the time   
on Jul 27, 2008
Seven years? Has it been that long. Wow...I can't believe we've been here for so long. Still can't believe you beat me to registering at WC by 5 days Congrats mate...to both of us...and everyone else who's been around WC pretty much since the beginning
on Jul 28, 2008

Franchie!

I remember that email!  

Congrats, bloody mate   

 

PS: Yes I didn´t get that darn hair cut yet   

on Jul 28, 2008

I remember that email!

Sure, Chinaman...like you can remember 7 years ago? [you can't even remember to cut your avatar's hair]....

on Jul 28, 2008
Congrats! Remember "The 12 Sins of Wallpapers" over at skinz.org? LOL good times. Watch out for that lens flare.
on Jul 28, 2008
I only joined 3 days after Jafo, that's pretty cool. I knew I was pretty close to the beginning, but not a moderator. I can't believe its been that long either. Congrats to Jafo. He is one terrific moderator. Wincustomize just wouldn't be the same without him here.
on Jul 29, 2008
Congrats JAFO!
on Jul 29, 2008
Oh man!  that doesn't make me feel younger


Happy Anniversary JAFO!!
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