I still don't understand what you think the problem is. We will still be posting away here. There will be many Supreme owners who don't join a mailing list and new ones who don't know about it. A mailing list just allows Supreme owners to get to know some of their fellow owners, ask specialized questions to those who might know, and share whatever literature they might have among each other easily. I won't be visiting or posting on AK any less frequently (probably less than 10% of my postings have anything to do with Supremes), and I doubt neither will any of the others that eventually get on a mailing list.
AK now has over 20,000 members, and the bigger it gets the harder to stay abreast of all the info. Despite the search function a lot of info quickly gets buried or can be hard to find. A small, interacting core of people with a particular interest can help each other from being inundated by info overload and prevent many redundant types of inquiries (ie, anybody got a user's manual for ...). AK is already splintering towards smaller groups. There are McIntosh, Pioneer, Sansui, Marantz forums, and eventually there will probably be Kenwood, Yamaha, Sony, etc due to pressure for them (the "why isn't there a Kenwood or Yamaha forum" seems to be asked with increasing regularity).
The moderators must decide what direction they will take. Will there be more and more small forums or a return to fewer forums? Is there any need for a Linn forum? If so, why don't the Thorens people have their own forum? Why isn't there a Kenwood Supremes forum (I'm willing to bet there are more threads about Supreme units then there have ever been about all Linn products), and what about a Pioneer Specs forum or a Marantz Esotec forum? I'm not advocating for anymore forums (and definitely not a Kenwood Supremes forum). I'm just pointing out that the moderators open themselves to criticism when they claim they don't want more splintering then start tiny Linn and Klipsch and Infinity forums. Where will it end? Who gets left out (what no Dual forum)? You can't have it both ways guys. Splinter of don't, but make a decision based on some sort of common sense. If the members want a Kenwood forum here, don't say "no, Yahoo has one, join it." For one thing, it's a crap forum, AK members want to come to AK. For another you just piss off several thousand Kenwood owners (who then whine about the 100 AK Linn owners having their own forum). Think it's time to stop equivocating and make a decision about this.