Does "being here first" entitle you to treat newcomers the same way you've been treated in the past? I suppose so. And I suppose it makes you feel really good about yourselves to have someone to look down upon. More power to you, I say! I'm sure you've succeeded in chasing away plenty of the "new fans." Congratulations! Belle & Sebastian would be so proud!

No, fucking right it doesn't entitle anyone to anything. I'd have hoped we were past all this stuff but I suppose it's evidently not the case. Maybe it never will be, but if you're new on this list, then rest assured that no-one will have a go at you, as there are plenty of us here who've been on the list since the very beginning and won't put up with that sort of behaviour. Anyway, I hope a load of new people do join the list, and hope they enjoy it too. We've all had a bloody good laugh for ages and the more the merrier. God forbid us lot ever wind up like the majority of manics fans seem to be. Although I doubt that would be the case, cause even the "old" fans here are a load of pissed up beer monsters. Kevan wrote :

But when someone who has been on the list since it first started sets up a new mailing list for the discussion of Belle and Sebastian it is hard to see how that can be anything other than a bad bad thing for Sinister, and a slap in the face for all the people on Sinister who voted for Belle and Sebastian in the Brits.

"Thanks for voting, now fuck off" is the message that I'm getting. I'm sure all will be explained in due course, it's just a bit puzzling at the moment.

Yeah, seems that way doesn't it. Or indeed "Thanks for all the time you put in that ultimately benefits us, now fuck off". Bit odd that there are two lists as well, seen as no-one's allowed to create a new web site that contains duplicate information. Oh well, things are changing now. I suppose it was bound to happen. However. On this list we are a bunch of people who are united simply by the act of *being friends*. We aren't trying to sell things to each other, we aren't trying to publicize things (apart from Dr.CB Stride and his real indie night), and we will continue to enjoy ourselves I don't doubt. Take care, Keith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+