Subject: Re: FFML population control
From: Douglas Helm
Date: 5/18/1997, 1:43 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com


Tell me, do you have time to read very many fanfics coming through 
this list?  Don't you feel badly that you can't read more of them, 
and give some of those authors a chance to be read?  I know I do.  
That's one major reason I was making this suggestion.

Yes I have time to read, although I'm an avid reader so making time isn't a
problem.  I don't feel badly that I can't read more fics.  I see the problem
differently.  There's more spam then fics around here.

Then you must not like Ranma very much, or you must have a GREAT deal 
more free time than most of us do.  At last count, I think 
approximately 50 Ranma fics went through the list last week.  (before 
this spam thread began)  So...you read each and every one of those?

Reading fics is important to me.  I've stated before that I read first the
fics whose Anime series I know about.  Then I read those fics that I don't
know to much about. I don't through any fic out.  I got stuff for Nuku-Nuku
who I don't know anything about but I WILL read them. I have read every
Ranma fic that's passed through here.  I'm also a fast read, family trait I
think, most fics take me 5-30 minutes depending upon size.  Rarely have I
ever gone over 45 minutes for a single fic.  I'm also a night owl, I'm
interested in fics so I'll give up sleep read them.  I've got off-topic
stuff from 95 still sitting around I haven't read.  We just have different
priorities that's all.

I'm just repeating myself know, and that a waste.  I've stated my position.
You've stated yours.  I think the threads worn out or dead, I shant continue it.

Doug