Greg Deeter
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Gregory K. Deeter is a stamp collector, sports car collector, high powered rocketry enthusiast (certified L2 with Tripoli), and ZZ Top live concert librarian from Houston Texas. Mr. Greg Deeter was born on June 27th 1968 in Modesto California. He is the founder of Boomspeed.Com (1999) and PicBuddy.Com (2006), both web hosting providers focused on pictures and image hosting.
In 1996, Mr. Greg Deeter was at the center of a Usenet controversy involving the commercial trade of stamps. When a proposal to split rec.collecting.stamps into separate discussion and marketplace groups was brought to news.groups, Deeter launched an unusual campaign to retain the status quo by offering $50 Scott catalog value worth of stamps to people who would vote against the split. $50 in Scott catalog value of stamps was worth about $3-$5 USD at the time. Reportedly several hundred people did receive the stamps, which he had also offered to give away free on his E-mail Network at Philatelic.Net.
Mr. Greg Deeter also founded VOTEYES.ORG, which at one point had over 1000 members who would automatically vote yes to every newsgroup creation proposal, thus negating the commercial interests of the ISS or Internet Software Consortium, who at the time was trying to control newsgroup creations.
Mr. Greg Deeter also produced and distributed freely, a windows based software package that would allow anyone to create their own newsgroup instantly.
Mr. Greg Deeter created several dozen stamp collecting related newsgroups, some including his own domain name, philatelic.com, all of which still exist today.
REC.COLLECTING.STAMPS still exists today as a result of his efforts.
Shortly after the USENET philatelic structure events, Mr. Greg Deeter went on to found the website STAMPS.COM in 1996 with the intent to allow people to print United States Postage with an inkjet printer at home. Mr. Greg Deeter sold the domain name and rights to a California based start-up which is today known as STAMPS.COM, Inc. and is publically traded on NASDAQ as (STMP). Mr. Deeter sold his pre IPO stock for 1.8 Million USD on December 26th 1999.
Mr. Deeter continues to run Boomspeed.Com, one of the Internet's first and oldest photo hosting platforms, and a new beta test site will show what he is developing today, at PicBuddy.Com
Mr. Deeter currently resides in College Station and Coldspring Texas.
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