On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Spiffy wrote:

Some people, like Jeremy 'Loki' Blackman, have much more on their minds 
than just simple e-mail. Just take a look at the following message: 

Nice sarcasm.

multiple hundreds of messages a day.  In addition to killing people's
mailboxes, I believe this was when fanfic.com still ran off two 28.8k PPP
links - the FFML was barely able to -deliver- all the mail.)  I believe an
existing subscriber offered to take over and got the 'Tybalt' account and
identity.

Well, This was Tybalt's first post as moderator:

[snip]

The point I tried to make, which you completely overlooked, was that
Tybalt did -not- just 'come out of nowhere'.  White Wolf had announced
earlier that he would be finding a moderator for the list as he could not
keep up with it.  All that first post did was let us know that Tybalt
would be the moderator White Wolf had earlier mentioned.

After this was posted, the message count per day dropped by something 
like HALF!

Keeping in mind it was something absurdly high before that, like multiple
hundreds of messages a day, as I recall.

I know lists can be expensive. I don't know how much WW and Tybalt pay to 
keep the list up. But Damon Casale, who runs the SPAM-ML, pays approx. 
$90 bucks a month, and that list is not nearly as active as this one. I 
don't know if this list uses a T1 or ISDN or cable or what, but it 
probably cost quite a bit just to keep this list connected. One of these 
days, WW is going to start charging fees to use this list. :) 

fanfic.com is White Wolf's own machine... I believe he's colocated it at
his workplace (if I recall correctly, he works for an ISP).  Similar to
the way nausicaa.net is going off a link here at my workplace.  The cost
is not money, but time and management resources. 

----[Loki]-----------------------------------------------------------------
Jeremy Blackman / Anime fan/fanfic author, Game Designer/Engineer
loki@maison-otaku.net (personal mail) / Maison Otaku Productions founder
loki@thekeep.org      (mailing lists) / Fanfic author / anime
jeremy@lith.com       (work)          / Monolith Productions