The first mailing list on the net for elves and others of the "otherkind," the Elfinkind Digest was established in 1990, operating from the University of Kentucky. Since then, it has moved a couple of times, but has remained in operation continually since then, on a two to three issue a week schedule. The list is not actively moderated, but is available only in digest form.
Yes, we're serious. The Elfinkind Digest is a mailing list for, about and by elves and interested others. The majority of the list population are elves and elfintypes, with a significant minority population of dragons and dracoforms. This is not a list for or about role-playing or role-playing games; we're elves. Deal with it.
Yes, it is. It's just up in order to put the list's existence on the web, so we can be found by people using search engines to find us. If you want to subscribe, send a message to the elflist request address saying you want on the list; you'll get back a welcome message with details.
The list was founded in 1990 because that's when I got EduNet access and discovered things like Usenet. The first notices about the list's existence went out to the old alt.pagan newsgroup, and to a few others I thought might have some interest. As list membership expanded to the UK and Europe, we established a United Kingdom Mail Relay, in order to make delivery more reliable. (Now that the net works most of the time, the relay has been shut down and mail is sent directly.) The membership count has varied over time, but has remained under 100; historically, we have not actively sought new members, but have tried to be a presense for those who have discovered themselves, and need someone else to talk with about it. There have been 2375 issues of the digest, as of 16 July 2008.
The list's primary purpose is to give those out there who know what they are, but don't necessarily have a name for it or understanding of it, someplace to go and talk with others of their kind, others who might understand. There wasn't any such place for me, so I made one, hoping I wasn't alone out here. As it turns out, I wasn't.
I certainly didn't think there'd be so many people, much less a Google/dmog.org category, but I can deal with that. ^_^
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