Richard Lawson <sterman@sprynet.com> writes:
Sorry I'm not being too constructive here. I don't have a good
solution; I kinda think there isn't one. Finding someone to voluntarily
post weekly lists of authors and fanfics seems the most likely solution
- if such a volunteer can be found. I know *I* wouldn't want the job.
An automated email filter could be used to find posts with fanfics
(everyone would have to use subject tags properly, which is true in
most fanfic posts), and then the titles and email addresses of the
authors of the fanfics might be stored in a database (series and genre
could also be figured out if everyone uses a standard syntax for such
subject tags). Then a web based front end could be used to access the
database. The database could also store the fics themselves (this
could replace the remailer), but a whole lot of disk space would have
to be devoted (which I won't be willing to do).
I'll volunteer to implement such a system if nobody thinks that they
can do a better job with the time available to them. (Summer break
and writer's block gives me a lot of free time to waste. ;)