It is time!

[Professor Hipponiex]

I'm sorry to hear this, but I understand the decision, and I'm glad to hear
that the archive will be saved. 32 is a very respectable age indeed - this
list was an important part of Disney comics fandom for an impressively long
time! All the best to everyone!

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 12:20 PM 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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