On Fri, 16 May 1997, Wing wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 1997, Mousse Lee wrote:

<*>>Stop looking at me like that.  :P  No, I mean it.  This list has gotten
<*>>far, FAR too big.  No one can reasonably read even a significant
<*>>percentage of the list traffic coming through consistently, day to day,
<*>>unless he or she has a GREAT deal of free time on his or her hands.  And
<*>>that doesn't include actually *writing* fics instead of merely
<*>>reading/C&C'ing them, or whatever.

Hmm... Sorry, Damon. *smiles* I don't think it would be a good idea to go
splitting lists. Main problem would be that people would fragment and the
unity would vanish. *smiles*

We're too big to be unified.  Think about it.  Do you even know half of
the people on this list?  I don't.  I don't even know a tenth, if that
many.

Besides, maintaining seperate lists is easy to suggest, but much harder to
implement AND maintain. Besides, if say we wanted to know what was happening
in all the lists, we subscribe to all of them. A poster thinks to get to
everyone, he/she will have to post to all of the lists if the email is general
enough. We'd be increasing traffic, but not neccesarily increasing signal to
noise ratio.

EXACTLY!!  We WANT noise!  It's the glue of socialization that can bind
us together MORE than we are now!  That's exactly the way it used to be!
Don't you remember?  I know you were here early on.  THINK!

when the ffml went down and there were two ffml's up in place of it, I kept
getting doubled email since I was subb'd to both. 

That's because:

1.  We didn't have an archive for ALL list traffic back then.  We do
now.  100% Anime Fanfiction.
2.  We didn't specifically ask everyone NOT to crosspost.  We will now.
3.  We didn't subdivide the list *precisely* for the reason of lowering
the mail volume.  That's what we're trying to do here.  And you know
what?  While those two lists were up, it was quiet!  I enjoyed the
breather, and I got a chance to know people and to keep up with things
again.  I remembered that that was how it USED to be, AND I MISSED IT!
I want it to be like that again, and this is the only way I can see of
making it happen.

The membership numbers on the list isn't as important as the structure of the
list.

That's the only point in which we agree.

Damon Casale, damoo@carmelnet.com
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