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Hello, and welcome to the pits of insanity, also known as the Final Fantasy Mailing List, or FFML to those who do not care to write the entire title. Do not let the name deceive you, it's original intent was to talk about Final Fantasy games, but the FFML has created it's own unique society. We mainly strive for humor, talk about different RPGs, make fun of the world, and a multitude of other things. Overall, we're downright silly.
Miscellaneous FFML Stuff
The Final Fantasy Mailing List Warehouse
Final Fantasy Mailing List Members' Biographies
The Final Fantasy Mailing List Quote Generator version 1.0
Final Fantasy Mailing List Magic: the Gathering Cards
A History Of The FFML
The Beginning
The FFML first came into being when John Daley, our former list moderator, started a mailing list. He screened all the letters manually, by himself, for nearly a year. This was the golden age of the FFML...
During this time, many events occurred, such as the reknowned Moogle Revolution, when the great forces of the FFML battled with powerful spells such as the spell "Isummontenzillionmooglesandcrushyourarmytooblivion898673078735!" and the infamous spell "Ikillyouandyoucantcomebacktolifebecauseisaysoandiaminvincible498375894!!" Eventually, the neutral forces managed to stop the horrible bloodshed, though it is unclear how (something to do with Dark Lord Eric being turned into the Dark Chicken Eric and Kain being sacrificed... I wasn't a member then and few members from this time are still on the list)
Epidemic of Lameritus
Before the Moogle War, however, there was the 'Meowing Bastard' incident. The Meowing Bastard was a lamer wh composed annoying rap songs which contained carious forms of racism, sexism, and overall vulgarity, and sent them to the list until he was banned from his ISP account. He later came back using the e-mail from a nearby library until he finally just gave up trying to annoy the list.
And then, the infamous Lansing incident. Lansing is responsible for one of the greatest cons of the internet gaming community ever. He claimed to be an employee of Squaresoft and fooled many members of the gaming community, not just the FFML, with a lie involving FF7, the false revival of Aeris. He joined a multitude of mailing lists and and newsgroups to spread this lie. However some fine FFML-member-turned-suspicious-detectives uncovered his dastardly deed. Right before he left the list, he informed the FFML that they were 'gullible fish'. If you are a avid Squaresoft gamer, you've probably had the misfortune to hear about Lansing.
Listserv Mania!
After a while, John found a mailing list server to host and moderate the FFML called 'Coollist', later known as Craplist, which would crash for long periods of time. After much complaining, We moved to Stargame, another list server, which also crashed often, though not as frequently(and thus was dubbed Starlame). Now we are on ONElist, which has been working great for over a year.
WAR!!
The next main event of the FFML was the Underwear War. The Underwear War was unwittingly started by Seph23 by stealing other people's underwear for some strange ritualistic purpose. However, it went far beyond that, with Druidess Kaitlin cloning herself, Northern Paladin calling in attack helicopters and tanks, and someone else summoning the almighty Sacred Goat! In a matter of weeks, the Underwear War escalated into Moogle War II, and MWII took up nearly sixty percent of all the posts for a while, until it settled into just a few messages a day. MWII is still hanging on, kept alive by a few individuals. After the MWII de-escalated, a power struggle emerged. Dark Lord Eric, who was the founder of the FFML IRC channel, AKICKed Northern Paladin over a personal dispute. NP and some others were not happy about this, and DLE eventually lost control of the channel and NP was taken off the AKICK list.
Decline and Recovery
After the list had settled down for a while, Pat and Kaitlin left the list. After the AKICK incident, DLE also left the list. Despair set in for a while, but the list is compensating. For each oldbie leaving, about two newbies join. People are becoming more active and the list is recovering. Also, after several months, most of the main list members such as Kaitlin and DLE rejoined the list.
Subscribing
"The Final Fantasy Mailing List is reborn again. This list is for all those that enjoy those GREAT Rpgs from Square not necessarily just the Final Fantasy...heck not even necessarily from Square just a great list with great people."
This is the description of the FFML on ONElist. To subscribe go here where you can see some of the most recent messages (I suggest you don't, it may frighten you...) Hope to see you soon!
-Mataya, the esper
