Subject: Re: I'm sorry to see it come to this.
From: wyrm@mail.utexas.edu (Thomas R Jefferys)
Date: 4/7/1997, 2:14 PM
To: Caroline Seawright
CC: fanfic@fanfic.com

  If you also suffer from Mangafans who can't stop talking about their
  stupid hobby,

You can leave the room, press the delete key, or just ignore us. Do these
and we can _all_ be happy.

If you flame us your damn self, that's your perogative. It means that _we_
can flame _you_ too, so think before you do. Don't underestimate the power
of a mailing list.

Nobody says you HAVE to listen to us, and we don't have to listen to you.
Simple, ain't it? :)

fill in this formular and I will send the list with
  names once a month to the guys u tell me! (I won't tell them your
  E-Mail so be calm)

<snip>

  Submit Reset

  Back to my home

Hmmm... According to this, you don't have to flame to get hit, just brush
by one person that doesn't like your hobby. Seems like a threat to me.

Then:

                              MANGA-ASSHOLES

Now, that was uncalled for.

  Here you find a list of Manga-Fans. MAIL THEM AND TELL THEM HOW STUPID
  THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My my my... do I sense some free-floating hostility here?

  WOLFIE AND HENKELMANN made a webpage against me. It's really funny.

Ah, so he admits that he's funny. ^_^

                             YOUR LAST CHANCE

  THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GO BACK TO MY HOMEPAGE AND NOT LOOK AT
THESE
INCREDIBLE STUPID PICTURES THAT ARE DANGEROUS FOR YOUR KIDS AND YOUR OWN
BRAIN.
DON'T LOOK AT THEM TOO LONG OR YOUR BRAIN WILL BE REDUCED TO A MINIMUM
AMOUNT.

9_9

If that's true, our friend has been looking at them too long himself. :)

FYI, catkiller, this is 'anime', not 'manga'. If you knew anything about
them, or did even the most cursory research, you'd know the difference.
This marks you as ignorant, and an ignorant who's unwilling to do anything
about his ignorance before commenting on the subject, which makes you a
fool.

This guy isn't just voicing his opinion; he's doing some serious wrong.
Most of the people who would read this list and send us hate-mail haven't
even heard from us before in their lives until today. I don't know about
you, but I want to recieve flames from people who actually give a shit
about what I personally do and say, not because I'm an otaku.

Note, I would be flamed just because I'm on the list, not because I've
caused the flamers any harm, real or imagined. I don't even bother with
jerks like these, so they're not going to get flames from _ME_! Catkiller
will not have any beef against me as a person, but as an otaku. This is
predjudice, plain and simple.

I've spoken my peace.


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