On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Tempest wrote:


@>	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.

Well, lets think about this a little. The problem is with people
requesting fics. Supposedly, by the time that they request them, they
already know what they're getting in to, and don't need a
synopsis. So, the problem becomes simpler. All that's needed is a
table of authors and their fics. Synopsis are just extra dead weight
that an author may not want to write (as we've already seen..), and
making it mandatory would be a huge pain and would be ignored in any
case.


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