[sumo] OT: Very bad news (was: Re: My public apology to Moti)

[Lon Howard]

On Dec 29, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Kuramarujo wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 08:51 +0800, Jezz wrote:
>
>> As many people know, this mailing list used to be the best place for
>> sumo news in the English language.  In recent times, some of the  
>> great
>> contributors to this list have either stopped contributing or have
>> emigrated to the sumo forum.
>>
>> This list has been very lucky that Moti has remained loyal to it.  It
>> has been his general practice of duplicating his posts both here and
>> on the forum.
>>
>> About a week ago Moti gave us some news about Asashoryu and asageiko.
>> From that bit of news we have ended up with the recent emails to this
>> list.
>>
>> We have not heard from Moti on the list for a few days regarding
>> Asashoryu's degeiko - but he has been updating the sumo forum (see
>> here:-->  <http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/index.php? 
>> showtopic=13832&st=0>)
>
> 	This is very disturbing news.  I've only gotten through about 130
> messages with over 100 more still to go.  It seems there's a problem
> here that could critically affect this list.  The very fundamental
> nature of this list might be in jeopardy.

It all boils down to people caring about the list.  If enough people  
care about it, it will survive.  It probably means some of the  
lurkers will have to contribute once in a awhile.  It also probably  
means some list members who read Sumo Forum need to post about info  
they get from it, so we can talk about it here.  We have been spoiled  
by Moti and Joe, but now it appears we'll have to do more of the work  
ourselves.  But in the end, it all comes down to the current list  
members caring enough to support it.  Good luck to us!

Lon Howard
Shomishuu