Yes! I don't know why I didn't put that down, because I had JADFE listed as the name, and then figured I must be wrong, and deleted it.
I have vague memories of hearing about JADFE starting as a slash-only list, but never the reasoning behind it. I honestly thought - at the time - that the slashfen wanted a place where they wouldn't have to deal with non-slash fic, or that it had kind of evolved that way from James wanting a separate place to post, and then the decision to change things to "adult" instead. Wow, was I SO WRONG. I don't remember when I found out otherwise, but, yeah. It seems wildly inappropriate to have all the slashers forced to a side list that's not generally considered a part of the "main" fandom.
I never joined JADFE, being mostly uninterested in boyslash and thinking that was all it was, and I also had a pretty limited mail quota at the time. (10 megabytes! UNIX shell account through college! 2400 baud modem! Total lack of knowledge of how to ftp files and save them to a floppy! Oh, internets, remember when we were new to each other? Remember when fannish wank wasn't Same Thing, Different Fandom?)
Re: "the slash list"
I have vague memories of hearing about JADFE starting as a slash-only list, but never the reasoning behind it. I honestly thought - at the time - that the slashfen wanted a place where they wouldn't have to deal with non-slash fic, or that it had kind of evolved that way from James wanting a separate place to post, and then the decision to change things to "adult" instead. Wow, was I SO WRONG. I don't remember when I found out otherwise, but, yeah. It seems wildly inappropriate to have all the slashers forced to a side list that's not generally considered a part of the "main" fandom.
I never joined JADFE, being mostly uninterested in boyslash and thinking that was all it was, and I also had a pretty limited mail quota at the time. (10 megabytes! UNIX shell account through college! 2400 baud modem! Total lack of knowledge of how to ftp files and save them to a floppy! Oh, internets, remember when we were new to each other? Remember when fannish wank wasn't Same Thing, Different Fandom?)