I don't even remember the particulars of it... I think it was right after the site migrated to Rivals in 1999 or 2000 and D'Arcy (Bingo) asked me if I wanted to be a writer for the site. He was on the Flames mailing list at the time.
I also posted on Usenet but that was steadily declining. I was looking to stay involved with the Flames after I'd parted ways with the Herald (I used to be the webmaster for
www.theflames.com and before that my own Flames website back when the Internet was tiny and it was the only Flames page - official or unofficial).