Subject: A Lurkers Outlook and Eudora 1.5.4
From: "Brian 'Seiji' Friday" <briafrid@LaSierra.edu>
Date: 9/22/1996, 3:00 AM
To: Jeanne Hedge
CC: Greg Sandborn <sandborn@microlink.net>, fanfic@fanfic.com


hmm... remind me not to go from 1.4.4 to 1.5.4 then.

If you need to get a better copy of Eudora go to there website and 
download the beta version of Eudora Lite 3.0.1

As for all the spam.  I will not add much to the large about caused by 
WW's polite yet unrefutable order!

You have caused more spam by questioning this then you have helped stop.
I support White Wolf because most of you have no idea how much mail some 
of us go through on a daily basis and while this is our own decision to 
get a large quantity of Email it is also highly annoying to have to go 
through 120 messages of spam to get to an authors story,

Many authors have expressed a large amount of displeasure about their 
stories receiving very little or no C&C.  While I don't usually do C&C it 
helps me in my own school writing to read the comments and suggestions 
given to authors regarding certain grammer and word usage mistakes.

When I joined this ML in early this year, I received 2 fan fics for every 
one spamfic or every 4 spam related posts.  This has increased ten fold 
while the amount of fan fics has diminished.

Do I think the recent rash of "what if ranma got pregent" spam was 
worthwhile ?  the answer would be yes!  It was handled in some fan fics 
in such a way that was both interesting, touching, or heart rending.
(i speak of the fan fic where ranma gets attacked and sexually assualted)


WW probably feels he needs a real solution to the spam problem.  I have 
had no problems dealing with spam as _long_ as the words [SPAM] appear in 
the header.  The same goes with fan fics [FanFic], but when I open a 
email and think that it may be a worthwhile story to read but find out 
its just spam it gets annoying.

My 2 Cents

Seiji Kinyobi
(Brian Friday)