I had that address memorised and would work through links on computers in the university library (~1997).
Hee, yes! Her site meant not having to worry about bookmarking sites yourself; she had them all, and you could get to them from anywhere. Like our very own fannishly-tailored proto-delicious.
(John Ordover? the editor of the official Star Trek novels published through Pocket Books?) troll the newsgroups telling everyone off for wasting their time on writing fanfic, and no published author would ever do such a thing.
Oh, awesome. I'd completely forgotten about this; I never saw it directly, but I heard from other people that he was doing that.
And Senad! That shaped a lot of my experience with mailing lists. I got it in digest form, because it was so high volume.
Senad, man. I got onto it right as it shifted from an email loop to an actual list, when James announced it on Slashpoint (I think), and begged tapes from someone, and then spent the next couple of years talking nonstop. It's the fandom I was most active in (and then over to Prospect-L when Senad splintered along "you must never say anything that might possibly result in an author deciding not to write again" vs. "readers have a right to react to what they read however they want" lines).
I was going to explain the whole mail vs. digest vs. nomail thing in the post, but decided that was a little fine-grained for something this broad, but I'm glad you mentioned it here, because really, digest is such a cool option! I really miss a lot of the sheer functionality we had with email -- filtering and folders and digests and killfiles. There was so much more control.
especially from being converted from NTSC to PAL that Jim had one blue eye and one brown eye in some scenes from Sentinel
Yes! And the reverse, for US fans watching things from PAL countries; early US Pros fans were watching tapes that were so wacky that they had no idea what anyone's eye color was, or sometimes even who was who.
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Hee, yes! Her site meant not having to worry about bookmarking sites yourself; she had them all, and you could get to them from anywhere. Like our very own fannishly-tailored proto-delicious.
(John Ordover? the editor of the official Star Trek novels published through Pocket Books?) troll the newsgroups telling everyone off for wasting their time on writing fanfic, and no published author would ever do such a thing.
Oh, awesome. I'd completely forgotten about this; I never saw it directly, but I heard from other people that he was doing that.
And Senad! That shaped a lot of my experience with mailing lists. I got it in digest form, because it was so high volume.
Senad, man. I got onto it right as it shifted from an email loop to an actual list, when James announced it on Slashpoint (I think), and begged tapes from someone, and then spent the next couple of years talking nonstop. It's the fandom I was most active in (and then over to Prospect-L when Senad splintered along "you must never say anything that might possibly result in an author deciding not to write again" vs. "readers have a right to react to what they read however they want" lines).
I was going to explain the whole mail vs. digest vs. nomail thing in the post, but decided that was a little fine-grained for something this broad, but I'm glad you mentioned it here, because really, digest is such a cool option! I really miss a lot of the sheer functionality we had with email -- filtering and folders and digests and killfiles. There was so much more control.
especially from being converted from NTSC to PAL that Jim had one blue eye and one brown eye in some scenes from Sentinel
Yes! And the reverse, for US fans watching things from PAL countries; early US Pros fans were watching tapes that were so wacky that they had no idea what anyone's eye color was, or sometimes even who was who.
Those days I don't miss so much. *G*