Subject: RE: [FFML] What Kind of Fanfic Should an Author Create?
From: "Richard Lawson" <sterman@sprynet.com>
Date: 3/21/1998, 11:37 PM
To: "Kevin 'Genryu' Eav" <ukyou@maison-otaku.net>
CC: "Fanfic ML" <fanfic@fanfic.com>
Reply-to:

Who said they were?  ^_^
Just to clarify a point, you two did, in not so many
words, by saying 'you, dear reader, must choose which
one of these viewpoints is 'correct' and live by it'.

The passage in question is:

<quote>

   But that is my opinion, and my opinion only.  As the saying goes, your
mileage may vary.  You may have a different opinion.  Whose should we go
by?  We simply *can't* enforce any one person's opinions.  Even if ninety
percent of the readers agree with one set of rules, how could they enforce
those standards on the remaining ten percent?  Joseph makes a very valid
point; the best we can do is try to persuade.  It is up to you, gentle
reader, to decide whose arguments you find most convincing, Joseph's or
mine.

</quote>

While you could interpret the last sentence to mean "there are only two
opinions and you must choose between them", the overall tone of the
paragraph is "it's up to you to decide your own viewpoint".

It's certainly what I meant when I wrote it.

-Richard