Edward Maglott 

 A little information about myself. I'm 34 years old (in 1998) and live in the mountains of Western North Carolina in the USA. I spend a lot of time at the local community college both as a student of Information Systems (computers), and working part-time as a Computer Lab Assistant. I have a girlfriend named Rhonda. I like to hike and mountain bike, and work around the house and yard.

I've been interested in cars and racing since I first started thinking about driving. I've followed Indycar and F1 since the early 80's. Also enjoyed the IMSA GTP series when it was going. I've never seen a Formula One race in person. I did go to the Indy 500 Pole day and qualifying in 1994, IMSA GTP at Road Atlanta in 1989(?) and some amateur road racing events. My behind the wheel experience has been mostly autocross, which I have been doing for about 15 years. I have autocrossed exclusively stock class, watercooled VW products ranging from a 1976 Scirocco to my current 1985 Golf GTi. I am not terribly serious about it and mostly do it for fun and to keep my driving skills somewhat honed. I just run the dozen or so events that happen in my area each year. I acheived "Driver of the Year" status in 1994 in our local sports car club based on my finishing positions for events throughout that year. I have also done a few "track days" over the years, where a group rents a road racing circuit and we all get a chance to do some high speed laps.

I met many of the folks on this list back around 1991 on the GEnie information service. I remember my first BBS post to the world was about using schedule 40 plumbing pipe to construct sway bars. I had heard about this from a friend and wanted to see if anybody had any plans for the project. Nobody did, but I remember the lively discussion that ensued had me quickly hooked on this medium. One of those who reponded to my first message was Mitch Mestel, who is still on this list. As the years passed, GEnie sort of faded away as being a viable way for many of us to access the electronic world, and this growing thing called "the internet." A ragged email list developed including many from GEnie, and also many new faces. This was done manually, with each person maintaining a list of email addresses on their computer. It's easy to imagine the problems as people changed email addresses, and discrepencies occured in each person's mailing list. A few years ago I helped get the automated f1 mailing list we now use set up on the server of the Mountain Area Information Network, a non-profit group dedicated to providing internet access to the rural (and not so rural) areas of Western North Carolina, and hosting free web pages for other non-profits. Being in school and working has meant that this list is really my main source of F1 coverage lately.

And it does quite a good job of it!