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I am not familiar with that user name.  I was on TTA for several years and quite active there.  I have checked out a few other forums but preferred TTA, and now prefer here.  When we had crazies trolling TTA, they often came here also.  There tended to be a working relationship between TTA and AF to stop some of the worst.  There was also overlap with some members posting on both.  AD was set up as a place for TTA members to go and stay together.  There is still overlap between that group and this.

I first started on Usenet 30 years ago, alt.atheism; I was a YEC Christian fundamentalist back in those days and was posting crap along the lines of the Omphalos hypothesis.  Almost immediately I got the Last Thursdayism responses, which really caused me to think about things.  I ended-up getting a private email from a U of Chicago faculty member (Jerry Coyne?) who basically told me to get lost, saying that he could not, per U Chicago policy, post publicly to Usenet.  After that I ended-up at infidels.org before, eventually, finding my way here.

I started listening to podcasts on my Ipod years ago, at work, and found 'The Thinking Atheist' podcast.  From there I wandered over to the forum.  I have heard Seth Andrews speak a few times and met him and Aron Ra at some of the events.  Prior to that the only forum I was ever involved in was a domestic abuse forum back in the days of AOL and dial-up.