<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hello Per,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I just wanted to say thank you for your amazing efforts in organizing and sustaining this mailing list, which meant so much to so many of us "back in the day". I doubt that many (if any at all) of the people who are reading this note will remember me, but reading and posting to the list were highlights of my leisure activities in the 1990s (along with reading Disney comics, of course!). For the life of me I can't remember how I wound up belonging to the list - I had been wandering around the ARPAnet since the 1970s, as part of my job - but I am indeed grateful that it happened, since it allowed me to become part of an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and talented fandom community! I looked forward to each new digest, where I could learn so much about Disney comics history from experts such as Per and David Gerstein, enjoy the amazing insights and side-splitting humor from Harry Fluchs (I hope I am remembering his last name correctly), and of course appreciate the behind-the-scenes news from pros such as John Lustig and Don Rosa. (I am of course omitting far too many names, of people whose contributions to the list were invaluable, so I apologize to any of them who may happen to read this.)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Two of my most memorable experiences in fandom occurred within a month or so of each other in 1996, first when I attended a 95th birthday dinner for Carl Barks at Diamond Comics (the only time I ever met Carl) and then when I was able to share memories (and bling) from that event at a breakfast get-together of about 20 DCML members (including letterer Todd Klein!) at the San Diego Comic-Con. And of course I shall always be grateful to the list for its making it possible for me to have a role in the creation of a Disney comic book, when I was able to provide Don Rosa with some scientific guidance about how to get to the earth's core in the story that became "The Universal Solvent". (I was a seismologist, so I was the DCML's resident expert on "Beneath the Ground".) As thanks for my ideas, Don sent me the Xerox copies of his pencils for the story, and of course I would never have been able to experience that thrill if it were not for the List. So I just wanted to express my thanks to Per for all that the DCML has meant to me, both as a reader and as a participant!<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So it's time to say good-bye, but most of all to say "thanks". <span>You da' man, Per!!!</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Best regards,</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Wilmer Rivers<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>