The Palladium List is an old fixture of the net, but it's on its third incarnation at the moment. The first List was operated out of Berkeley by a guy named Smurf. Unfortunately, Smurf lost interest in Palladium, and left the List to its own destiny. All would have been fine, if it hadn't been for a series of events that triggered the down fall of the Old List.

The first was the need for an administrator. Someone to kill people who needed to be killed, to make sure there weren't any more +100 post in one hour flame wars, and to generally keep things under control.

The second was the mechanism that unsubscribes people after a certain number of bounced posts. This device began activating, kicking people off the List at what seemed like random. This caused people to worry, got some of the less-stable people very angry, and gave everyone this feeling of impending doom, because the sudden unsubing seemed to be a sign of the List breaking down.

So we decided to move. Gabriel Apostate/Warlock, the current administrator, volunteered his server as the new List's home, and set about building a new List and transfering all of us over to it as flawlessly as he could.

And so it was that the old List was destroyed, wiped off the server, to make room for the New Palladium Mailing List.

And when that List began to give everyone trouble, Gabe tranfered us all to the new List at palladium@dante.neonexus.com, a new List on the same server, and one that uses the same mailing list software as the original List (a program called Smartlist).