On Fri, 16 May 1997, Damon Casale wrote:
<*>> 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.
I can't agree with that. Starting a small list would only alienate more people
and create clique's that seperate themselves from others instead of banning
together.
Sure, I don't know ALL the names of people to the list and perhaps not many
know who I am. But that doesn't detract from how I see the list. If anyone
here on the list goes through a bad time, I would feel the same amount of
concern for them as I would for someone close to me who lived in my
neighborhood.
We are a COMMUNITY. When CatWhumper bad mouthed manga and anime with his weird
page, we were one. A sense of being part of a whole is important. I can take
time to learn who everyone is, ONLY if there is a community to interact in.
<*>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!
I WAS here earlier on. But the noise I'm talking about isn't the noise of the
golden past, Damon. I'm talking about cross-posting reptitious noise that
doesn't do anything but cause people to leave lists. The golden past involved
people. It didn't require them to join several lists and get noise in the form
of five copies of one email message.
<*>1. We didn't have an archive for ALL list traffic back then. We do
<*>now. 100% Anime Fanfiction.
I'm interested in the list for the fanwork and writing. But I also care about
the people and I'm interested in the people. A fan-archive only accomplishes
one but has little to do with a list.
<*>2. We didn't specifically ask everyone NOT to crosspost. We will now.
Asking people to not crosspost is like asking people not to jaywalk. It will
also cause more seperation between lists. It will rip apart a community that
is starting to mesh.
<*>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!
It was quiet not because it was organized. It was quiet because quite
honestly, people were lost and weren't well informed. During that period, I
recieved more duplicated emails in one week than I did in a year of the ffml.
There is a distinct difference in silence because people are respectful, and
silence because there is nothing to be said.
<*> 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.
Yes, I'm glad that you got a chance to meet and get to know new people, Damon.
But realise that a list split will cause people who know each other to break
up.
Wing. [ Think of what exists.. the good present before destroying and
changing. Sometimes in working for something better, we forget
what good there is all around us. ]
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