Subject: Re: [FFML] To everyone incorrectly posting fanfics (this means you)
From: wacko@laplace.snu.ac.kr (Yoo C. Chung)
Date: 4/5/1998, 9:27 AM
To: Fanfic ML

"Doug Murphy" <Draxonx@bellsouth.net> writes:

I've been going nuts setting up an auto-archive script for Microsoft
Outlook and right when I had everything working it seems like
everyone decided to use non-standard labels for their fanfics.

I went nuts trying to create my author-fanfic database because of the
wide variety of label formats (or lack thereof).  Unfortunately, I
don't think it's possible to automatically identify fanfics (unless
one uses yet to be available AI technology :), so my system just
automatically enters what posts it can identify, with me manually
entering the rest.

I too would really like everybody using the label format as specified
in the FAQ, but I think hell has a larger chance of freezing over than
this ever happening. :(

Anyways, there's another gripe I have with the labeling of some
people's posts, and it's that they seem to put too much in the tags
like this:

[Really Really Dark Fanfic][Desparately needing comments!][Don't read
this children!] Some title

These kinds of subjects look *really* silly.

-- Yoo C. Chung <http://laplace.snu.ac.kr/~wacko/> School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University