It is time!

[Matthew Yaklin]

Every once in a while, an email came to me from this list and I enjoyed reading it.

I am not a huge follower of all things Disney but I definitely enjoy Barks/Rosa/etc.. work with Uncle Scrooge.
To this day I still have not acquired a Carl Barks oil painting for obvious reasons ($$$$).

I have given almost all my Disney comics away to children over the years and all I am left with is a handful of random issues that I have read so many times before. My 12 year old son prefers Pokemon over comic books even though I still try every once in a while with him. Sad that direct sales to comic book stores have basically made finding Disney comics impossible in most US stores, gas stations, etc... One has to make specific trips or online purchases just for a chance to acquire the material.

It will most likely take a special talent to give new life to these characters here in the USA if Disney even allows it to happen. Respecting the past while introducing fresh stories to appear. Anime/manga seems to have that special thing going on right now for current generations. Something Disney has lost or gave up on. Who knows if political correctness could even allow a 1940s style cartoon short to even be shown in a movie theater now days with comedy only allowed if done a certain way.

Thank you for maintaining this list for all these years. Times change I suppose.

Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: DCML <dcml-bounces at nafsk.se> On Behalf Of Halsten Jarle Aastebøl
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 2:47 PM
To: Per Starbäck <per.starback at gmail.com>; dcml at nafsk.se
Subject: RE: It is time!

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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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