On Fri, 16 May 1997 09:20:09 -0700 (PDT), Damon Casale wrote:

This gives me an idea.

<Gary gives Damon a funny look>

Stop looking at me like that.  :P

What? Whattaya talkin' about? :-p
[snip]

Consider:  what would happen if we divided the FFML into four or five
separate lists?  Not based on content, but just to get the volume of
people down?  We could still archive the posts, and 100% Anime
Fanfiction could be the repository of the fics from *all* of those
separate lists, for those who aren't quite satisfied with the fanfics
being posted to whatever single list they're subbed to.

Everyone would be free to pick one (or two, or whatever) sublist to
subscribe to, and get to know people.  Granted, this might tend to make
things a little cliqueish, but I think the benefits GREATLY outweigh the
pitfalls.

Comments?

If you remember, this was sort of tried in March. There were, I think,
five different lists filling in for the FFML while it was down. I was on
three of them.

The only way this is going to work, methinks, is if it is based on
content. Otherwise you'll either get people posting to *all* the lists,
or else many posts won't reach the people who would be interested in
them. Therefore, if you really want to do this, allow me to make a
counter-proposal. We could have five seperate lists as follows:

1: ranmafic@fanfic.com Fanfiction using Ranma characters and/or set in
the Ranma universe, and discussion directly related to a specific Ranma
fic.

2: smfic@fanfic.com Ditto for Sailor Moon fics.

3: otherfic@fanfic.com Ditto for fics based on all other series, as well
as original fics. (Note: I am singling out Ranma and SM for their own
lists simply because the majority of fics seem to be based on these
series.)

4: discuss@fanfic.com Discussion, but must be related to fanfiction;
things you'd like to see in a future fic, general comments on fanfiction
trends, basically any discussion related to fics in general but not a
particular fic.

5: spam@fanfic.com Discussion not related to fanfiction. (Yes, such a
forum is necessary, or such posts will show up in the other forums.)

Comments?

Gary Kleppe
kleppe@execpc.com, Home page http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe
My fanfics and the FFML map are on my comics/manga page,
       http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics