My wife and I started lurking on the WhiteWater thread. What year was that ? It ran a long while.
I think 1997-98 was the heyday of the Whitewater topic. Don't forget, for most of us at that time, the discussion was a continuation of the discussion from the Whitewater topic on the old Prodigy News BB where we were going strong since 1993. Jim Robinson provided us a forum where we didn't have to worry about moderators, and one by one, we all made it over here. Well, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Now we got these pesky moderators running about again!
Of course, they are not half as bad as those Prodigy hallway monitors used to be. And I'm afraid they are a necessary evil now that the forum has gotten so large and successful.