1. Is anyone here involved in the GlenCookWiki? For those who don't know, it is an alterable encyclopedia of Glen's fiction. It needs more attention but quite a bit is already fleshed out. http://en.glencook.org/index.php/Main_Page It's the sort of thing that would benefit from a few visits from each of us every once in awhile, editing and adding as we see fit. (My handle there is Rook Fasthands.) 2. My first post here on the fanlist was during summer 2002 (under the name Welly). In it, I tracked down the 10 original Taken & the Shadowmasters and proffered a small theory about them. A good debate followed, primarily between me and David Ainsworth. David rejected the theory in favor of viewing it as an "indeterminate possibility", and since then --it was just about 5 years ago-- I came to agree with him: the theory is quite possible yet unlikely to be true. As such, although Nightcrawler, the Faceless Man, and Moonbiter may have been lost suspiciously in the North, and their bodies were never found by Otto and Hagop, they likely were not the 3 slain would-be-shadowmasters that Uncle Doj mentioned (those 3 in my view now were more likely to have been unnamed foreigners who accompanied Longshadow). 3. Starting back in August of 2001 there was a discussion about the most evil character in the Black Company series. I agreed (and still do) with someone who said that Croaker was the most evil of all: he knowingly orchestrated the destruction of a shadowgate, enabling the shadows of the plain to flood in and torture an entire world of people to death. The Dominator may have cruelly leveled provinces and kingdoms, but he never brought an entire world to the very brink of destruction. Anyone have any thoughts on this? 4. I am having trouble navigating the archives at http://mailman.xmission.com/lurker/list/glencook-fans.en.html. How do I find the posts between August 2004 and now? how far back do those archives go? I found a different listing that had really old archives UP TO Aug 2004, but that archive simply ends there. 5. The last digest I got was August 2004 (digest #288). Was there a change of hands or something after that point / a lacuna of posting? -Mike ------------------------------- Michael R. Hodum Gardens Area R.A. - Claver Hall '06-'07 Ext. 3510 "... for among the simple pleasures of life must be counted the happiness of bringing good news to a grateful recipient." - Arnold H. M. Lunn (A Saint in the Slave Trade: Peter Claver) -------------------------------