At 01:41 AM 5/22/98 -0500, The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:

7. Think about what would happen to those of us who are obligated (or
feel thusly obligated) to hang onto, and archive, all of these
things. I expect to be spending most of the night tomorrow night,
during the Godzilla marathon on TNT, getting these things ready to go
up on the web, thus distracting from what I would otherwise be doing,
which would be either updating the *rest* of my site which is in sore
need of it, or working on the next chapter of Suiseiki. I'm not the
only one trying to archive these things, either. It's going to eat up
a *lot* of time to sort through these.

	Actually, Lurk, you're right. But on the other hand, there's me. I've got 
nothing to do with my time but limp around the house (Oh, the joys of being 
disabled. <frustrated look>), so I archived ALL of them. And I'll be 
forwarding them as a single file, all text, to anyone who wants them, and to 
RAAC, if the various authors don't mind.

Now, imagine what would happen
if somebody didn't rein this thing in. A lot of good adfics would
probably disappear through the cracks because the people archiving
them lack the time and interest to keep on going. And the adfics
would continue, until everyone got so sick of them they started
accidentally deleting more important e-mails in the midst of a mass
adfic purge...I'm sure, in fact, that this has already happened to
more than a few people. In time, we'd eventually start killfiling the
repeat offenders, and if it kept on going, about half the subscribers
of the FFML would probably leave due to the flood of adfics filling
up their mailboxes faster than they could delete them.

	Don't worry on this account.. I caught all of them. Or at least 122 of them 
at last count. And failing all else, I'll archive them on MY page now that I 
have more than a few megs of space, thanks to a good friend formerly from 
this this. ^_^

	As for k-filing the most annoying offenders? We've done that in the past, 
and that's why Tybalt is here. (Hi, Ty!) To maintain a certain level of 
sanity amongst this group of egomaniacal writers. ^_^

	Last of all, while Ty will stomp any further adfics after today, I'm still 
willing to archive them, UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS!

	After Tybalt's clampdown goes into effect, I'll still accept adfics via 
PRIVATE EMAIL ONLY. I _will_ reserve the right to reject any that have sunk 
to the literary level of Oscar or Dr. Thinker (ie, horrendous spelling 
and/or grammar errors). And sending them to me after Ty's time limit will 
be considered as having automatically given me permission to archive them 
and to post them to RAAC, as well as my page, if they can find no other home.

	Guess that's about all I have to say on the matter for the time being. 

	Hey, Lurk.. the clouds of smoke made it up to Colorado, finally. I see 
what'cha mean. Not QUITE as bad as it is down your way, but I can understand 
yer problems. Take care, buddy.


	BTW.. love the .sig.

The Eternal Lost Lurker
...gettin' ficcy wit' it...
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