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    <description>Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards</description>

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      <title>I will not say: do not weep</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:06:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Marta</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11322</link>
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      <description>Hey guys, By now most of you know that we won&#39;t be having a 2012 season of the MEFAs. This news of course makes me very sad, because these awards have been one</description>
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      <title>(no subject)</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:49:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Lissa</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11321</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11321</guid>
      <description>Dear MEFA staff, When I first joined this fandom in 2007, the MEFAs seemed to me an institution and the archive a regular treasure trove. Therefore I am</description>
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      <title>Thank you</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:14:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Patricia</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11320</link>
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      <description>Dear Aranel: Please accept my gratitude to you and all the others who worked so hard to create and maintain the MEFAs. I very much wish the MEFAs weren&#39;t</description>
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      <title>Re: Announcement from Aranel: Cancellation of MEFAs</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:08:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Wheelrider</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11319</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11319</guid>
      <description>Adding my thanks to all the volunteers who have put so much of themselves into the MEFAs! It&#39;s unfortunate that there has been some acrimony, but it&#39;s a</description>
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      <title>Closing down</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:34:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>elliska67</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11318</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11318</guid>
      <description>As the MEFAs come to a close, we are working on shutting down their active web presence. We have replaced the voting site with the MEFA archive. To bring</description>
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      <title>MEFAs revamp - it ain&#39;t over &#39;til the soprano orc sings</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:33:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>F.D</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11317</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11317</guid>
      <description>*DO NOT write soprano orc stories* Many who have enjoyed MEFAs and want to see them continue and evolve are taking up the suggestion of Marta et al to take</description>
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      <title>Re: Announcement from Aranel: Cancellation of MEFAs</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:33:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Aranel</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11316</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11316</guid>
      <description>Hello everyone, Thank you all for your words of support. It makes me feel much better about my decision and it means a lot to me the hear it. I was expecting</description>
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      <title>Re: Announcement from Aranel: Cancellation of MEFAs</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:48:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>sugarhon_2222</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11315</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11315</guid>
      <description>I must confess that I haven&#39;t been an active participant of MEFAs all these years, mostly because real life always seemed to get in the way and keep me busy.</description>
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      <title>Re: Announcement from Aranel: Cancellation of MEFAs</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 06:35:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Ellin Ithilwen</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11314</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11314</guid>
      <description>Thank you for everything you have done for MEFA and for the fandom, Aranel. Ellynn ________________________________ From: Aranel &lt;araneltook@...&gt; To:</description>
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      <title>Re: Announcement from Aranel: Cancellation of MEFAs</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 06:13:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Bonnie L. Sherrell</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11313</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11313</guid>
      <description>I am not angry toward those who have worked to make the MEFAs happen, although I am understandably disappointed, particularly as I have been collecting stories</description>
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      <title>Re: Announcement from Aranel: Cancellation of MEFAs</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:04:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Elizabeth Nield</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11312</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11312</guid>
      <description>You all worked hard on the MEFAs, and I&#39;m glad to have been able to be in them, even if it was only two years. I wish everyone luck on future endeavors, and</description>
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      <title>Re: Announcement from Aranel: Cancellation of MEFAs</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 02:00:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>nau_tika</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11311</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11311</guid>
      <description>I&#39;ll really miss the MEFAs, even though I havent been active the past couple of years. I certainly understand your decision and I&#39;m sorry it came to this.</description>
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      <title>Re: Announcement from Aranel: Cancellation of MEFAs</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:50:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Elena Tiriel</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11310</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11310</guid>
      <description>Thank you for all the hard work you&#39;ve put into the MEFAs, Aranel.  I understand and respect your decision. - Barbara [Non-text portions of this message have</description>
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      <title>General opinion</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:40:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alpha Ori</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11309</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11309</guid>
      <description>I have simply been inactive in most of the time on this list. However, as an author of &quot;adult content&quot; stories, that could really be no other way.   And yet,</description>
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      <title>Re: Announcement from Aranel: Cancellation of MEFAs</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Barbara Rich</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11308</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/11308</guid>
      <description>Aranel, I think this year&#39;s MEFAs were just dumped on by Murphy&#39;s Law-- perhaps a sign that they have run their course.  I have loved and enjoyed them ever</description>
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