goanet was started on 25 august 1994 with approximately 20 members. the mailing list was run from carneiro's university e-mail account. according to carneiro: "netters were asked to put a * in their subject line to indicate a message to be posted on the list as opposed to private e-mail. the list grew slowly but steadily. pretty soon we had 100 members and by that time i could not cope forwarding all the e-mail. so, i requested that a mailing list program be set up for goanet on my university's server. i was successful and goanet found its home for next 4 years."