I don't think the community will die if the listserver crashes. We already had this problem in last fall, and monolith found a very good solution (thx to him!). I think the community, if it should die that fast, will more probably die if the "young" players from now will ne grown up, about 3 or 4 years from now. They won't stop because they don't like the game anymore- they stop because they will study etc...