Hello,
RARA-AVIS was first announced on 7 January 1997, so today is
the list's fourth birthday and we're heading into the fifth
year of the oldest and best place on the Internet to talk
about hardboiled and noir fiction. Now that there's a search
engine that makes it easy to search the archives, we've got
the biggest collection of fact and opinion about hardboiled
writing anywhere on the Internet. (I often hear from people
who find out about the list after searching for information
about an obscure writer and finding something from the
archives. It's happened to me a couple of times, too.)
Thanks to all the people who post to the list, present and
past. Lurkers: remember you can speak up at any time, even if
you haven't said a word since you joined years ago.
Subscribers
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A glance through the subscription list shows members from
Canada, the UK, the US, Denmark, New Zealand, Japan, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Italy, France, Australia
and Germany, and I know there are some others hidden behind a
.com or .net address.
How many subscribers are there?
Subscribers Date
-------------------- Jan 1998 163 Jul 1998 196 Jan 1999 237
Jul 1999 272 Jan 2000 288 Jan 2001 312
iComm
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Finally, please don't forget that the list is brought to you
through the good graces of iComm, a non-profit corporation
that gives out free Internet services to non-profit and
community groups. I'm the president this year. If you'd like
to make a donation, they're very welcome and very needed.
Instructions on how to do so are on the web site at
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You can always mail me off-list if you have any questions or
commnts.
Cheers,
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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