It is time!

[Per Starbäck]

Hello everyone who is still here!

After a long time with very low traffic it is time to finally
terminate this mailing list.

The date set is August 3 this summer.

As most of you probably remember I am the one who created and managed
this mailing list from the start. I wrote a couple of test messages
before adding the addresses of interested people I had corresponded
with and who had said they wanted to be part of such a mailing list.
Then 3 August 1992 I sent the first real message, which is archived
here:

https://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/1992-August/000002.html

Few of you were part of this from the very beginning, but more and
more Disney comics fans got access to email and got to know about the
list, and joined.

A prolific time for the mailing list started which gave me a lot of
pleasure (and a lot of information). I find it almost hard now to
remember how it was then after various problems later with the list,
and then the list being dormant for so long. But it was really
something totally different then; fun and important for me and others,
connections and friendships were made, and I want to thank all of you
old-timers who made it what it was back then! (It would be too hard to
decide where to draw the line on who to mention, so I'll mention no
names at all.)

Back in 2006 when things were not so great anymore, and my interest in
Disney comics was at a temporary low, I handed over the list to
NAFS(k), the "National Donaldist Society of Sweden (quack)" as a way
to continue the list.

Here is my announcement in 2006 about the transfer, from the list archives:

https://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/2006-March/023998.html

I was active in NAFS(k) myself and continued to be part of the 'DCML
team', but not alone anymore. I thought I was going to quit that
totally after some time of overlapping with new people, but actually I
never did, so I have continued to filter spam sent to the list etc.
during the long time of low list activity. Just a couple of years ago
I finally transferred the old web pages associated with the list which
were (somewhat 'forgotten') still at my old university department from
which I earlier had handled the list (the impetus was that I was
quitting that job).

Anyway, recently I suggested to the board of NAFS(k) that we should
finally discontinue the list, and they agreed. It doesn't take a lot
of resources to continue to manage it, but it seems rather pointless,
and if someone new finds it and joins now they will probably just be
dissatisfied when they find out there is no activity here.

The date for termination is set to the 'birthday' of the list, August
3, so that the list becomes 32 years old – quite a respectable age for
a mailing list!

The list *archive* is a treasure which surely will be kept. There is a
lot to be found there, and it should continue to be a valuable
resource at least for anyone interested in Disney comics fandom during
that time. There have been loose plans to convert the archive to a
nicer format. That will not happen soon at least, but chances for that
will at least somewhat improve after the shutdown of the list, since
it makes it easier to handle it when not new incoming messages have to
be taken into account.

I will end this announcement with the same .sig quote I used back then.

-- 
Per Starbäck
 "Life is but a gamble!  Let flipism chart your ramble!"