Since no one's been kicked off the list just yet...

I rarely post, but I'm not too bothered by spam. I watch anime because it's
fun. I come here because it's fun. To me, spam is merely the off-topic
ramblings that ensue when any group of friends ( or supposed friends )
gather in a social setting. After all, it's not as if we're here to cure
cancer, solve world hunger, or plug the hole in the ozone layer. The second
this becomes a place where we all come, link up, and transmit fanfics and
C+C with no real sense of who the other person is, I'll tender my
unsubscription, because this place will have become a redundant variant of
raac. Some people just need to relax.

I'm not usually so much as totally angered by the presence of spam (I only 
post when something like this comes up or my next issue is completed), but 
some people intentionally post subjects that are off-topic.  They write an 
apology for the spam but they really don't care if the damage is done (c'mon 
guys, be honest now).

Although I don't interact with most of the members on this list, I can admit 
that this has become a friendly mailing list.  It has been said time and 
again that people have made friends through this list, and not because of the 
fanfics that they write.

But, as the title says, this is the Fanfic Mailing List.  And the current 
content within the list is probably what scares some fanfic readers away.  In 
my mailbox, I get a few stories a day on average.  The spam count is about 
nine or ten times higher than that.  Yeah, some (emphasis on some) of it is 
fanfic related, but there are others I wouldn't want in my mailbox.  There is 
nothing I can do about the spam, because most of the time I don't press 
"Send" a whole lot.

But I think people in this discussion are missing one word: compromise.  
Would it just be alright if the people here can find a happy medium between 
total spam and another version of RAAC?

Roehl Sybing, Director of the Federal Reality Commission

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That's more than enough to get a day's worth of work done.

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