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ONE MILLION page views!
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 12:10 AM UTC
Today at some point we will be hitting our one millionith page view! I will be starting up a special chat room for anyone who wants to celebrate the event and be on-hand when it hits.

Look for it later in the day.

My thanks to everyone for the success of the site!

Sincerely,
Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 12:43 AM UTC
Congrats Jim. Nice work.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 12:59 AM UTC
Wow, thats perty damned good...now where are those sponsors you were talking about se we can upload all our pictures!!!!
Great job and thanx for having this site,
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 01:31 AM UTC
I think you should start planning for your 2nd million real soon. I just found this site after a comment by Rob Gronovius in RMS, and now it's a daily stop for me. You've developed one hell of a site, and should be proud of your accomplishment. As word gets around, your traffic will skyrocket.

Thanks for developing a wonderful place for modelers to congregate, and continued success in all your endeavors in the future.

Mike

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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 01:43 AM UTC
Guys,
Thanks for the praise of the site. All I can say is that I may have built it, but you guys furnished it and live here.

Mike - Yeah we are well on our way to doing about a million a month in a few months. This month for example we are on track for 600,000 alone. I just hope I can keep up with all the growth. I wish my regular work was not picking up at the same time too.

Thanks,
Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 01:53 AM UTC
It's an awesome site Jim and everybody here makes it even better.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 02:21 AM UTC
What's really cool is that Jim started paying us for our contributions. Bad part is there's another W-2 to have to keep up with.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 02:26 AM UTC
Rob,
That reminds me I have a check for .25 cents here for you.

Also....isn't there a certain e-mail about a shirt that you are suspciciously forgetting to reply to me about? hmmmm....



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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 02:54 AM UTC

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Rob,
That reminds me I have a check for .25 cents here for you.

Also....isn't there a certain e-mail about a shirt that you are suspciciously forgetting to reply to me about? hmmmm....



Jim


Congrats on 1,000,000 - looking towards a million-per-month!

Gunnie
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 03:12 AM UTC
Reaching a million...that's a good thing...right?

Congratulations Jim!

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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 03:54 AM UTC

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Rob,
That reminds me I have a check for .25 cents here for you.
Jim, you ruined the joke, I was going to see how long it would carry and who would protest.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 03:59 AM UTC
What? Oh....you think they are going to complain about the rate of pay now? hehe

Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 04:23 AM UTC
Well, don't you think $.25 cents is a bit too extragavent...

Gunnie
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 04:32 AM UTC
Hi Jim! My real congratulations for this outstanding achievement, as said many times before, it´s just a consequency for the really good job you´re doing around here, with a lot listenning for all and everybody suggestions and complains, always having to deal with particular questions and always getting the best solutions, well the only word must be, you´re a leader and as a leader you´re driving us to a better modelling world.
Just keep the work as you´re doing, in Jim we trust!
Cheers! And fast forward for next 1,000,000!
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 05:12 AM UTC
The party is on in Chatterbox area for those online.

Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 05:25 AM UTC
congrats Jim, you`ve done an outstanding job!!!
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 05:32 AM UTC

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Rob,
That reminds me I have a check for .25 cents here for you.


Jim


No way.....I think Rob's worth twice that much!!!

Tread.

A Million huh? "YOU DA MAN Jim!!!!!!!!!
This site is the BEST, and I know you know that that is precisely the way I feel.
I'm not really sure how you did it....just glad you did it. :-)

Ya got a good 'core' crew Jim.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 06:25 AM UTC
Congrats Jim lad!!! Here's to the next mil;
(_8^ ( | )

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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 06:29 AM UTC
So at about 6:00pm EST we had our millionith page view. I don't know who it was suffice to say it wasn't me. I was 999,999 and 1,000,001.

Thanks to everyone who attended our little party, and celebrated the moment.

Cheers,
Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 06:39 AM UTC
It was me Jim......that's why I changed my avatar. I couldn't endure all the paparazzi that was sure to come, so I thought I'd go 'incognito'...........

Tread.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 06:48 AM UTC
Love the site Jim!! Congrats on a million. Hope to see a couple of more. :-)
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 06:52 AM UTC
Yikes! How much bandwidth is that??? (I am ever-paranoid about bandwidth)

Good job Jim.

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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 07:00 AM UTC

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So at about 6:00pm EST we had our millionith page view. I don't know who it was suffice to say it wasn't me. I was 999,999 and 1,000,001.

Thanks to everyone who attended our little party, and celebrated the moment.

Cheers,
Jim
It was me and I won a free kit.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 07:25 AM UTC
Well it certainly wasn't me! Dag nabbit!!! i missed all the fun...again. S.O.G.
There was a ticker tape parade? Fireworks too? A live band? Colonels and Majors and Captains...oh my!

Well, well, Jim, another major acomplishment from the guy that started it all! I'm very happy for you and I'm very proud to be a part of it. I hope for the continued success of this most wonderful place I call home..."home-page" that is...lol.

PS, for the wise...I think Rob will owe you .09 cents for the stamp...

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Posted: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 08:17 AM UTC

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There was a ticker tape parade? Fireworks too? A live band? Colonels and Majors and Captains...oh my!

No, there was just a lot of incoming rifle fire from a few members (who shall remain unnamed) I didn't 'hear' the rifle fire-my speakers weren't plugged in, but we later got into a discussion about who my dentist really is ...Well, no not really. Just trying to be funny there.

YodaMan
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