It is time!

[Frank Stajano]

This is a pity although it is difficult to argue against this decision. Fond memories of the friendships made on this list during the 1990s when it was the centre of gravity of Disney comicsology (at least for me). 

Many thanks to you and to all who contributed. And yes, please do preserve the archive and leave it accessible, if at all  possible!

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Professor Frank Stajano - University of Cambridge
Department of Computer Science and Technology  |  Trinity College Cambridge
frankstajanoexplains.com - stajano.com



> On 19 Jun 2024, at 17:20, Per Starbäck <per.starback at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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