Sinister: Happy Birthday You

[honey at xxx.org]

Sinister,

Today is Sinister's 5th birthday, finally, for real, and I thought
day 1826 or something of Sinister could be the day I could break all
the list rules and send a short somewhat FAQ-breaking mail.  I just
wanted to say happy birthday, and don't really know what else to say.
I'll ramble for a bit then retire in embarrassed silence, coughing and
rearranging flowers on the windowsill.

I'm not really up to counting properly (maybe there's a Sinister
Statistician chewing a Sinister Pencil somewhere), but I'd take
a rough guess that the Sinister archive since August 27th 1997
contains 24,000 messages.  Multiplied out by the average number of
people who've been on this list, I'd guess that my poor tired little
mail servers have sent more than 20 million messages in the course
of their 5 year childhood.  I'm not sure if when the servers hit 15,
get spots and start to hang out drinking cans of cheap lager outside
the chippy they'll be so happy to do so (I expect some fairly surly
error messages), but I'd like to thank the little darlings for their
tireless work.  Of course really I'd like to thank YOU all because
you all joined the list, made the list, and kept the list going, but
I'm a bit embarrassed and don't know how to put it.  Just.. you know.

My best friends for life have been made through Sinister.  Some of
you have said the loveliest things, but I've gained more from Sinister
than anyone and consider it an incredibly lucky and unlikely thing to
happen to me, and maybe a life-saver.  All it was was an idle thought
on a Thursday afternoon, and not a very original one.  You made it
all what it is, and you should thank the flowers, not the gardener.

I've been pretty much a silent mum retired to bed with valium and
vodka, and I'm aware how rubbish I've been.  I've been poking away
in the background fixing stuff and keeping it going, and Linda's been
her own sweet self keeping everything going publically.  Things have
and continue to be pretty impossible in the world outside Sinister,
but I couldn't not mail on day 1826.  Happy Birthday Sinister. Honey xxx



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