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[Taylor G]

This topic came up in a discussion that many may be missing, and the information should be more readily available.

With the demise of the comicart-l mailing list, there are for now two mailing lists for discussion of comic art:

comicartl@freelists.org

comic-art@groups.io

As with the original comicart-l, discussion is predominantly spam and discussions of comic art, rather than the discussion of market values that predominates here.  More discussion of comic art than spam since the demise of comicart-l, but that might change if the membership increases.  If dealers start spamming the list, I hope the moderators will put a limit on the length of a message, unlike the comic art marketplace forum here.

Unlike Facebook, posts can be found more than a few days after they are made, and you're not sharing your life with Facebook.

This is what mail digests on the groups.io list look like;

 

This is what the Freelist mail digest looks like.  It's converting rich text emails to plain text for archiving, making a very bad job of it, and then generating the digests from the archives. It can't even get the hyperlinks right:

 

And then sometimes it gets confused about the character set encoding and we get this: