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 Aren't these basically the same as spamfics?  If these are banned,

why

aren't all spamfics banned?  I find it disconcerting to see

something I

enjoy reading being banned from the list merely because enough

people

don't like receiving them.  Like so many people have said before,

if you

don't want to read them delete them.  *shrug*  This definitely

wasn't

what I joined the mailing list for.  

There's a few things you need to understand when you make comments
like this.

1. The FFML is designed to handle high volumes of traffic, but during
the adfic challenge, the traffic has been abnormally high. Coupled
with normal list traffic, the adfic traffic has probably put a strain
on the server. 

2. The adfic challenge is also putting a strain on the servers of
anyone receiving mail from the FFML, and more than likely has plugged
up several mailboxes to the point where incoming messages began
bouncing, resulting in those people who aren't cleaning out their
mailboxes being bounced from the list due to bounced mails. 

3. The adfic challenge got out of control. It ran far longer than
anyone expected. I personally expected it to be forgotten entirely
within 24 hours...it went on for four days. That's more than long
enough for *anything* to go on around here.

4. Adfics and spamfics are now two different things. 

5. Spamfics are fine, but we really need to be concentrating on
*fanfics* around here. 

6. There is no 6.

7. Think about what would happen to those of us who are obligated (or
feel thusly obligated) to hang onto, and archive, all of these
things. I expect to be spending most of the night tomorrow night,
during the Godzilla marathon on TNT, getting these things ready to go
up on the web, thus distracting from what I would otherwise be doing,
which would be either updating the *rest* of my site which is in sore
need of it, or working on the next chapter of Suiseiki. I'm not the
only one trying to archive these things, either. It's going to eat up
a *lot* of time to sort through these. Now, imagine what would happen
if somebody didn't rein this thing in. A lot of good adfics would
probably disappear through the cracks because the people archiving
them lack the time and interest to keep on going. And the adfics
would continue, until everyone got so sick of them they started
accidentally deleting more important e-mails in the midst of a mass
adfic purge...I'm sure, in fact, that this has already happened to
more than a few people. In time, we'd eventually start killfiling the
repeat offenders, and if it kept on going, about half the subscribers
of the FFML would probably leave due to the flood of adfics filling
up their mailboxes faster than they could delete them.

Granted, that's probably blowing it a little out of proportion, but I
hope you get the general idea that too much of a good thing isn't
always a good thing.

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