EMAIL LIST GIANT STRANDS SCI-FI FANS 

Gillions of science fiction fans were left with empty inboxes last weekend their email group provider went down.

Last weekend there was silence as computers world wide no longer said, "You've got mail."

Many thought the should have said something else along the lines of "You've been ....... "

The initial excuse was a moving of servers, but fans, who had faced the peril of being the subject of a software beta test just weeks before, suspected the worst.  They got it.

As the error pages began to appear, it was evident an evil and Shadowy force had taken over there beloved SpooHoo.  

SpooHoo was now a division of a mega-corp., IPX .

There mail vanished like a Technomage.  

Emails to support@SpooHoo.com seems to enter a void deeper than a Za'Ha'Dum pit.

Fans began to got into mail withdrawals.  Stories surfaced of victims frantically waiting for the mail man in hopes of a piece of junk snail mail .  Others sent emails to bogus addresses in hopes of the failure return mail notices eliciting the new mail computer "boing" or that heavenly phrase, "You've got mail."

In an example of utter desperation, some even solicited spammers for junk mail.

Said on fan , "I may actually have to leave the house.  See this skin?  It has not seen day light in years.  I could burst into flames or something!"

Others frantically called local libraries and book stores to be what sci-fi was on the shelves and asked "Do you deliver?"

With eGroups , OneList, and About gone they were at the mercy of the darkness and this is how the darkness responded.

SpooHoo Announcement

Note: SpooHoo is not associated with YaPoo or any of its subsidiaries. 

Published on: March 20, 2002 

Shadows

Mr. Morden