Sincearly
      Kelly Conrad Davies Schultz
      a.k.a. Skywise

Well spoken, my friend. I have some 'digging' to do on something you 
mentioned. Something I would not have noticed if the ML hadn't been nearly 
'spam free' for a day or so...

Some people might see that period as the ML at its best. So many fanfics 
coming out I had to delete most of them. What one may not see is that they 
weren't created within a day or so. The MASSIVE armada of Fanfics that came 
out as SPAM died shortly were created from a creative atmosphere duplicated 
nowhere else in the world. (WW, I'm bragging about YOUR list, raise your chin, 
and accept the compliment) In the massive amounts of fics i saw ideas that had 
been discussed in many, many messages. These messages sometimes turned into 
debates, which made some people mad. My point is that the fanfics weren't 
being pumped out by anti-SPAM crazy nutheads. A lot of them were being written 
and posted by people who had paid attention to some of the SPAM. Using some 
ideas expressed by others, the writers on this mailing list have produced some 
of the best fanfiction I have ever read.

This could be easily be made into a small analogy type thing.

Fanfiction is the military. SPAM is the tank factories. Some people hate the 
factories because of the pollution. In response the government shuts most 
factories down. The military is as mighty as ever, despite the change... But 
for how long?

Draxon-X