At 01:58 AM 7/19/97 -0500, Richard Lawson wrote:

Tempest wrote:

        Well.. you know, Mark Doherty has this REALLY 
nifty WEELY SYNOPSYS thing, and well.. if EVERYONE were 
to use it, there would be a growing list of Fanfics, 
Genre, Type, Author, and short commentaries.

Well, this would be good, but it would require two things:  that
everyone send a synopsis to Mark, and that he have the time to

compile

them all.  Neither is guaranteed to happen.  I sent in a synopsis

once;

it never appeared.  And, when I have perused the list, it contains

less

than half of the fics sent to the FFML, which means a lot of

authors

don't bother.  

And it doesn't do a thing for people who have been unsubbed, and

therefore

have not gotten any of said lists.

	Allow me to address a FEW things in this letter.

	1.) Mark doesn't do C&C on the fics, its just a collection of
Synopsis written by the authors themselves.

	2.)I was suggesting 2 things in this letter, If my point was missed,
I'll try it again.  First was that we tell everyone that they should
use Mark's Synopsis thing. Tell everyone how to send teh Synopsis to
Mark, and make it seem required.  Second, Mark already does the
weekly posting, and he makes an HTML version.  So all we need is
someone to compile the lists and put them at a website in either
cronicle or alphabetical order, so that people can look through them
and get either stuff they missed, or find the author to a fic.


Adam Chris Leigh
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