On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Aaron Stolz <astolz@direct.ca> wrote:

I was the one that said "If you don't want SPAM you're goin to have to make
this a trictly moderated list, like RAAC is a strictly moderated newsgroup"
And I really till don't see any difference between SkyKnights 400K+ BGZone 9
and 400 1K spamms spread over some 4-5 days...if someone's got a 500K
mailbox, what are they doing on a Mailing last this busy, really?  No matter
WHAT is kept to this list, people with 500K Mailboxes are GOING to get them
overfilled, let's face it, most 'fics are rather large! 

The difference is that BGZone is a fanfic, and 400 1K spams are electronic
junk mail.  This is, after all, the Fanfic Mailing List, *not* the Spam
Mailing List.

BTW, your post sounds suspiciously like you are saying that people with
mailbox sizes less than 500K should not be allowed to join this ML.  (I'm
doing fine with a 200K mailbox, although I have to download my mail 3-4
times a day)  Are you going to specify what e-mail software is and isn't
allowable next?

<snippage>

and I maintain that people with 500K
mailboxes *really* shouldn't be subscribed to places this busy in the first
place, unless they're actually writing somthing.  If what they're writing
needs work, for a time THAT will be what is talked about th most on the
ML...

It will be talked about on the list if 1) it is seen from amid all the spam,
and 2) it's Ranma.  I can't do a thing about the second, but the spam really
does need to be reduced.
  

that's how it was 5 months ago and I don't see any reason why it should
be any different now.  

You and I have been here about the same time, and I see the difference.
There really *is* more spam now than there was last fall.  I'm regularly
deleting 75% of my mail, almost all sourced to this ML, without reading it
because of the non-fanfic content.

Heck, for about a half-month most of what we talked
about once upon a time was "What color should Sylvies suit be in BGZ?" (I
love what ya finally chose BTW SkyKnight!) 

Yes, and I'd like to point out that since the question was related to a
fanfic being written, it wasn't spam.  Arguing over Biles-dolls (or whatever
they are) *is* spam.

Actually, not that I think about
it, the only thing really different now than 5 months ago is that there
aren't that many "works in progress" really being posted, it's (mostly!)all
simply pre-edited, pre-RAAC-release stuff, so there really isn't much TO
talk about!

Perhaps because very few people seem to care to comment on "works in
progress" (unless they are Ranma - no *wonder* so many new people seem to
think this is a Ranma-only list :).  These posts, I suspect, are getting
lost and tossed with the filler.  Or the writers, like me, have given up.
Why bother when you know nobody's going to answer?

Aaron Stolz-astolz@direct.ca E-mail me anytime! I'm on for HOURS on end all

the 

time, so you might even get a reply soon after you send it! *******************

Must be nice to have that much free time.

Jeanne Hedge

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