On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Damon Casale wrote:

Since the FFML is just about two years old, as Kergma said, I had an
idea to celebrate with a biennial spamfic war.  However, it would
totally flood the FFML, with its 400+ subscribers, so I'm proposing that
we celebrate on the Spam ML.  :)

First, other than the fact that this is stupid idea...

The list has 600+ subscribers.