On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Ryan Mathews wrote:

First off, let me say that, so far, I think this is a pretty cool ML, 
despite the difficulties as of late.

Thank you!  I'm glad someone isn't mad at me.

Nevertheless, as much as I like it here, I don't know if I can stick 
around.  This may sound goofy but... I've never received this much mail 
before, in six years on the Internet.  Not even close.  Today I had one 
hundred eleven messages in my box.  They weren't all from the list, but 
most were.

Um...  sorry...

So I thought that, just for the hell of it, I'd toss out the idea: what 
about turning the ML into an alt. newsgroup?  With the amount of daily 
traffic, there's more than enough justification for one.  Creating it 
would be child's play.  Someone who knows how could set up a gateway 
between the ML and the group, so that the ML could still be used by 
those unable to receive the group.

I can do this...  but do you have any idea how hard it is to get ISP's to 
honor new group messages?  So, first...  

What will the new group name be?

alt.fan.fanfic?

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