Subject: RE: [FFML] [rant] An important tip about giving C&C on a fic...
From: "Richard Lawson" <sterman@uswest.net>
Date: 4/23/1998, 9:39 PM
To: "The Eternal Lost Lurker" <EternalLostLurker@worldnet.att.net>, <ffml@fanfic.com>

From: The Eternal Lost Lurker
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 1998 7:26 PM

The following commentary belongs in a thesis on Sailormoon, or at
least in a commentary on a *serious* fanfic, not in a reply to a fic
which is, more or less, intended to be ecchi humor. To be perfectly
frank, anyone who puts this much overanalysis into an 11KB chapter of
a fic such as Sailormoon Flash probably needs to turn off their
computer a little more frequently...

In short, I don't think this is what most of us have in mind when
they ask for C&C:

Robert, you've got me stumped.

What's so bad about this commentary that you feel the need to breach
internet etiquette to publicly display it?  Frankly, I was expecting some
horrible flaming, not this well-reasoned, interesting post.  I'd love to
get commentary like this.

Why publicly slander the anonymous author because of something honestly
intended to be a serious discussion of issues raised by your fanfic?

I just don't get it.  You know how many people would give their eyeteeth
for feedback like this?  Heck, when my KOR fic hit raac, the only comment
I got was from one guy begging me not to turn it into a mind control
lemon.  I'd've *much* rather gotten something like this.

-Richard