In a message dated 6/9/99 9:26:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, LN411@aol.com 
writes:

<< << > I'm serious here.  Who in the Ranma cast would use e-mail?  Certainly 
not
  > most of them, even if you decided to advance the timeframe of the story to
  > the present day, for what could e-mail offer them to further their
  > interests?  There is neither a Jusenko ML nor an alt.rec.chi-blasts, no
  > one is looking for a new relationship ('cept maybe the extras) And even if
  > they *did* have the inclination, who would have a computer?
  >
  > Ryouga recieving mail in any form has it's own obvious problem. >>
 
      Actually, I read a scary-as-hell Ranma fanfic entitled "Communication 
 Break-Down" wherein most of the cast had computers and internet access...it 
 was done pretty well, actually. If you suspend the canon-fact that R1/2 is 
 technically pre-'net, it could be done well..."Communication" proved it to 
 me, anyway...  >>
	The Internet has been around for about 30 years, maybe longer.  Ranma 
1/2 would have to be set in the '50s to be safely pre-'net.


		--Ryo Hoshi