On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Andrew Dynon wrote:

PRIMARY RANT:

A couple of days ago I sent chapter 4 of my Iczer fic "Guardian Angel" to
the FFML. Since that time, however, I have recieved ABSOLUTELY NO FEEDBACK
WHATSOEVER! Now I realize that there are not a great amount of people (even
amongst the anime community) who like the Iczer series as much as I do, but
at least somebody out there must have read it. PLEASE, SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT
YOU THOUGHT OF IT!  SEND A FLAME IF YOU WANT TO, BUT TELL ME YOUR OPINION!

This is totally unnecessary.  Mr. Dynon, please understand that a large
number of stories just don't get noticed.  Out of the several thousand,
possibly, stories that have been sent here, maybe half, if that many, get
C&C, and then due in large part to people who make followings for certain 
authors (Lawson, Zen, Biles, what have you.)  I have been here nearly a
year; in that time, I have sent possibly 20 stories/story teasers to this 
ML.  I have not yet once received any sort of intensive, "I read this and 
then spent an hour C&C'ing this" sort of response, outside of immediate
friends/pre-readers.  It doesn't bother me, though.  Should it?

SECONDARY RANT:

As for your secondary rant... please. People write what they like. Ranma
is very well-liked.  We've had this debate.  There are several groups of
fanfic out there. Guess what they are?  BGC, Ranma, SM, and DBZ, mostly.
Other stories are far and few in between. Why?  Because, largely, those
four anime are the intros/starting points/most loved series.  I myself
have a deep and fond attachment to three of them.  It's a free world, Mr.
Dynon; this is not a non-Ranma Fanfic ML.

As for a rant of my own; (and I'll make this short), please, why do
people call their stories spamfics?  The designation is meaningless, as
an email is either spam, a fanfic, C&C, or discussion.  And, IMHO, it
demeans possibly good stories.

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