Re: longevity: I'm in rather a weird position on this; I happen to run a list on a popular British comic and its sister titles (2000AD/Judge Dredd: the Megazine/Crisis/Revolver) which has been at three homes in its history, from ELM alias to it's present, well-connected, mailserv-FTP site-WWW page-whole-shebang stage. :) Frankly, as much as it's moved in the year and three months it's been around, I'm rather suprised *anyone* stayed with it...but no, the regulars have stayed, new people have come, I'm now at the 100+ mark, and I've now gotten to the stage that people who *publish* the comics wanna know more and I've pros on the list. :) (Boooooooy...I can see a weird thread there: "How to deal with professionals in your list's topic/official people that are ON the list?" :) Anyhoo, I've been through a bit of a trial by fire with Thrillpower, so I know it's not going to die Right Now. :) I do realize that if Fleetway (publishers of 2000AD) were to dump comics altogether, I might not have much of a list anymore (save for nostalgia); however, one factor that's in my list's favour at the moment is the fact there is almost *no* other forum on the British comics scene on Internet, either in list or in newsgroup. Now, as to the longevity...well, I know it will last at least as long as 2000AD remains in print in one form or another. :) If someone were to start up, say, rec.arts.comics.euro, I might have some troubles, but not much...the alternative comics list hasn't had much trouble with Usenet groups, nor has the mainstream comics list. (I'm not too worried about an alt.* group, frankly, as Janet (the UK academic link) doesn't even carry alt.*.) Of course, I don't know how applicable my situation is, because Thrillpower serves more of a small niche of the Interenet community (a previously-unserved one, admittedly, but I'm not getting *too* comfy :)... I think it pretty much depends on the audience you're serving, frankly. Having blathered on too long already, I am (tm) -- -Windigo The Feral (NYAR!) -- Home Sec., aka Dobe Warrior Artemis--KtT, CCA--St., COB, COTABI--The 2000AD Mailinglist is now OPEN! Send mail to [log in to unmask] saying "sub thrillpower" (your address) in body to subscribe...FTP archive at ftp.thepoint.com, dir /pub/text/thrillpower/