On 4/5/2012 2:12 AM, Tunç MART wrote: > As noone else has written it, I thought I should write. This list is > really old, going some 15 years or something ( John or Rip can > probably show you the first email ever sent on the list<g>) The thing > is, much of what you would like to talk about now have been talked > before, and to be honest we have some people on the list who has no > job but to point out that this is Off topic, there is a spoiler > warning missing or something else. I think we are being a bit over > protective here, as a simple search on Raymond Feist on google will > probably bring all kinds of spoilers to you. And in order to reach > this list, you must do that search, right? Not many people get to know > this list via friends, many of us find it on internet by random > search.
Probably a bit closer to twenty years now. I probably don't have the files any more (or they're sitting on a floppy disk somewhere), but I have vague recollections of seeing FEISTFANS-L references back in college probably somewhere back on USENET. Sadly, I didn't sign up back then since we had very limited disk space back then. And all of these rules have evolved over the years. We've tried to be as courteous as possible in most of those cases. It was easy when there were a handful of us (say like 30-40) on the list, where we were almost all in the US and caught up on the latest book. As the list has gotten larger, we've still been accommodating for a lot of foreign fans (some of whom pay per KB/MB, some where only the first four books are translated). Everyone is going to have different definitions of what's a minor spoiler versus a "big reveal". And for some of us who read some of the books ages ago, some of the rules might seem ridiculous, especially to people who don't care about spoilers. So far, the list has been pretty good once they understand the makeup of the list. > I also second to one comment which was saying there are way too > irrelevant comments on some subjects, some of the members seem to use > this list as like a forum or their chatbox, while almost every other > comment made by newbies are subject to bullying. In the end, we don't > talk much in the list.. Yeah, we're going to get some convergence of things here as we get larger: less general Netiquette (looking for and reading the FAQ), the impulse to respond thanks to texting and article commenting, divergence in Internet access, etc. And all of that's ignoring the fact that there's less "mystery" as REF winds down towards Magician's End. That does kind of give us less to discuss compared to earlier times. Although, now I'm hoping that there will be enough wrapped up for all the loose ends he's left lying around in previous books. -Ray
