It is time!

[Halsten Jarle Aastebøl]

Hi

Wow. It must be a couple of decades since I last posted here. Even so, this feels somewhat sad as I really enjoyed this list back in the days. But the world has moved on, and the decision is a natural one.

Thank you ever so much for managing this list for all these years. It really made a difference when it comes to information and discussions about Disney comics.

Regards
Halsten


>-----Original Message-----
>From: DCML <dcml-bounces at nafsk.se> On Behalf Of Per Starbäck
>Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 6:20 PM
>To: dcml at nafsk.se
>Subject: It is time!
>
>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!"
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