I wanted to send out a very grateful thank you to our moderator, Bill Gruber, who has helped us all every single day for a great many years now (more years than the original moderator, Chris Lewis, worked to get the FML to us all). There have been only two FML moderators since its birth (Steve and I having been around all that time so knowing that for sure...) and that is amazing given how long the list has been around and how many members it has. Oh, and even before Bill became the FML moderator he helped the FML membership in other ways including creating the anonymous feature for those in FFZs. BTW, did you know that the typical lifespan of a list with a thousand or more members is only one year? What year are we in now? 17! Just call up the original one -- back when ignorance was the norm -- and you'll see the FML began and has run steadily -- without break -- since Dec 21, 19:14 1987. BTW, no other ferret list has been around as long. One existed before then but stopped for very extended periods and was restarted by new people at least twice. Hey, the FML is older than some of its members! Bill, you work your tail off to help ferrets. Thanks so very much for doing so! [Moderator's note: I don't know what prompted that... I guess Sukie just does stuff like this now and then... sigh. What tail, by the way? BIG] [Posted in FML issue 4600]