<div dir="ltr">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!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 12:20 PM Per Starbäck <<a href="mailto:per.starback@gmail.com">per.starback@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello everyone who is still here!<br>
<br>
After a long time with very low traffic it is time to finally<br>
terminate this mailing list.<br>
<br>
The date set is August 3 this summer.<br>
<br>
As most of you probably remember I am the one who created and managed<br>
this mailing list from the start. I wrote a couple of test messages<br>
before adding the addresses of interested people I had corresponded<br>
with and who had said they wanted to be part of such a mailing list.<br>
Then 3 August 1992 I sent the first real message, which is archived<br>
here:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/1992-August/000002.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/1992-August/000002.html</a><br>
<br>
Few of you were part of this from the very beginning, but more and<br>
more Disney comics fans got access to email and got to know about the<br>
list, and joined.<br>
<br>
A prolific time for the mailing list started which gave me a lot of<br>
pleasure (and a lot of information). I find it almost hard now to<br>
remember how it was then after various problems later with the list,<br>
and then the list being dormant for so long. But it was really<br>
something totally different then; fun and important for me and others,<br>
connections and friendships were made, and I want to thank all of you<br>
old-timers who made it what it was back then! (It would be too hard to<br>
decide where to draw the line on who to mention, so I'll mention no<br>
names at all.)<br>
<br>
Back in 2006 when things were not so great anymore, and my interest in<br>
Disney comics was at a temporary low, I handed over the list to<br>
NAFS(k), the "National Donaldist Society of Sweden (quack)" as a way<br>
to continue the list.<br>
<br>
Here is my announcement in 2006 about the transfer, from the list archives:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/2006-March/023998.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/2006-March/023998.html</a><br>
<br>
I was active in NAFS(k) myself and continued to be part of the 'DCML<br>
team', but not alone anymore. I thought I was going to quit that<br>
totally after some time of overlapping with new people, but actually I<br>
never did, so I have continued to filter spam sent to the list etc.<br>
during the long time of low list activity. Just a couple of years ago<br>
I finally transferred the old web pages associated with the list which<br>
were (somewhat 'forgotten') still at my old university department from<br>
which I earlier had handled the list (the impetus was that I was<br>
quitting that job).<br>
<br>
Anyway, recently I suggested to the board of NAFS(k) that we should<br>
finally discontinue the list, and they agreed. It doesn't take a lot<br>
of resources to continue to manage it, but it seems rather pointless,<br>
and if someone new finds it and joins now they will probably just be<br>
dissatisfied when they find out there is no activity here.<br>
<br>
The date for termination is set to the 'birthday' of the list, August<br>
3, so that the list becomes 32 years old – quite a respectable age for<br>
a mailing list!<br>
<br>
The list *archive* is a treasure which surely will be kept. There is a<br>
lot to be found there, and it should continue to be a valuable<br>
resource at least for anyone interested in Disney comics fandom during<br>
that time. There have been loose plans to convert the archive to a<br>
nicer format. That will not happen soon at least, but chances for that<br>
will at least somewhat improve after the shutdown of the list, since<br>
it makes it easier to handle it when not new incoming messages have to<br>
be taken into account.<br>
<br>
I will end this announcement with the same .sig quote I used back then.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Per Starbäck<br>
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"<br>
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