It's only natural for an ML, and a series' fanbase, to eventually reach the 
twilight of its lifecycle. With little new material entering the arena, all 
our pertinent topics have been debated, discussed, argued, beaten, kicked and 
otherwise flogged to death over the course of... what do we have now, 10 
years of running? There is nothing left to say.
 

 I believe many of the regulars have either moved their primary interests 
elsewhere (as is with me), lost access to the e-mail accounts signed up here, 
or otherwise become disconnected with the community the ML represents. The ML 
has moved into the final phase of a fandom's lifecycle. We have a few 
die-hards clinging to the last shards of community, some old timers who 
occasionally peek in out of nostalgia or curiosity, and the rare fresh-faced 
newbie who has recently discovered the series and has yet to absorb all the 
material and information we've sifted over time and again during the ML's 
course.
 

 Mailing lists are also a rather archaic means of electronic communications - 
the modernized equivalent being the web-board bulletin board, and the ML's 
antiquated predecessor being USENET. Web boards are far more accessible to 
the majority of the internet population; you might have some success 
revivifying some segment of the ML population if someone set up a forum or 
three on a reliable server and announced it here.
 

-- Yoru