Tiger-List
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[edit] History
- Created by Scott McMahan around 1991 (date unconfirmed), transitioned to Rob Novak in 1993 Privacy Issue #10 .
- Tiger-List was the seminal Duran Duran mailing list in the early days of the Internet. Smaller lists came and went, but until the advent of such easy list-creation sites as OneList and eGroups, Tiger dominated the fan communication channels.
- Tiger was available in realtime and digest formats.
- At its peak, Tiger had over 400 subscribers, with an average of 50+ on-topic posts per day. Privacy Issue #10 .
- Numerous Duran Duran fanzines were launched either by people making connections on Tiger, or being advertised on Tiger.
- T-shirts were made and sold at cost to list members, coming in black text on white or copper text on black. Bumper stickers were available in silver text on white.
[edit] Administration
- Although not originally created by him, Rob Novak became indelibly recognized as the owner of Tiger-List. Over its decade of activity, he was the administrator, and he ultimately moved Tiger to his own domain, Indyramp, housed by his own firm Indyramp Consulting.
- As the list grew, it became obvious that one person could not successfully administer the technical aspects of keeping it live in addition to keeping the users moderated sufficiently enough that it was on topic and not chaotic. As such, Rob recruited several users who had been on the list since the early days and dubbed them "The Watchbeings".
- Watchbeings were given full admin rights to the list. Though this sort of role would become de rigeur on the Internet in later years, the Tiger members weren't always big fans of having a self-policing policy, leading to the founding of new lists, and, ultimately, the expansion of the Duranie community into new online arenas such as the WWW.
