[FFML] [Info?] Translation help/suggestions?

[Gary Kleppe]

On 2/15/21 5:35 PM, Larry Fontenot wrote:
> The FFML is pretty close to a ghost town these days. It never recovered from the death of White Wolf, the original owner of the list, since there are so many other forums for fanfiction now that aren’t email dependent.

WW is dead? I had no idea. I thought he'd just lost interest and went 
off to do other stuff.

> The people who are still subscribed are mostly lurkers. That includes me. I only answered because it was a language question and languages are a secondary interest of mine.

I would point out to anyone who's concerned about the state of the list, 
there's something very helpful that you can do: Go to the list archives, 
http://www.chez-vrolet.net/pipermail/ffml/ , or into your saved emails 
from FFML if you have any. Find a story that someone posted. Read it, 
and post a comment. Rinse, repeat. I want to stress, this is absolutely 
nothing personal towards Larry and Hans, but a general comment to anyone 
who would like to see the list be active again.

Me, if someone posts a story, I'll commit to doing my best to read it 
and try to post a useful comment. This does not apply to certain 
individuals to whom I've sent story comments in past and not gotten any 
reply. That's something like two or three people. You know who you are, 
or should. Anyone else care to make this same commitment?

To Angus MacSpon, who posted while I was typing up my own reply: My 
understanding (Dennis Carr may want to jump in here) is that there are 
problems with using HTML on an email list. It doesn't play well with the 
digest mode option whereby a bunch of posts get combined into one for 
some recipients. It's not the greatest for quoting back one line of a 
previous message at a time in order to comment on a specific passage of 
a story. That said, it's not a big deal for me if the list consensus is 
to move to HTML and if it's doable from a technical perspective. 
Certainly it wouldn't stop me from posting stuff.