[FFML] Looking for a fic

[Alexander CHEEZEM]

... aaaand this came back unreadably mangled.

 

 -- Aleh

 

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From: The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm>
To: ffml <ffml at chez-vrolet.net>
Sent: Sat, Nov 10, 2018 10:22 pm
Subject: Re: [FFML] Looking for a fic

On 2018-11-10 at 22:00, Alexander CHEEZEM wrote:> ... well, now. This is interesting.> > I've posted a few times on how FFML messages are coming through to me> mangled. That hasn't stopped, exactly, but this particular message> was only *partially* mangled. Specifically, while The Wanderer's and> Bob's messages came through as blocks of text, the attached fic and> text by Yonge came through fully intact. I've posted a screenshot of> what the mess looks like at https :> //i.postimg.cc/jj9SzYHG/FFML-Screenshot-2.jpg (just remove the> spaces).I doubt that's needed, given the mangled way that portion of the quotecame through to me; see below.In particular, it came through with all newlines after the Subject lineand before the attachment deleted.I suspect that if there had been any strings of consecutive non-newlinewhitespace, they might well have been elided to one whitespace item apiece.> -----Original Message-----> From: The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm>> To: ffml <ffml at chez-vrolet.net>> Sent: Sat, Nov 10, 2018 7:40 pm> Subject: Re: [FFML] Looking for a fic> > On 2018-11-10 at 18:37, Bob Schroeck wrote:> While I'm trying to catch up on all the new traffic in the last few> weeks, I have (another!) query to pose to the list.> > I'm trying to find a story that I used to have a copy of, but lost> in the death of a thumbdrive some years back.  Hopefully someone here> recognizes it and can send me a copy or point me at where it's to be> found:> > Sailor Moon fic, written shortly after 9/11.  It *might* be a John> Biles fic, but don't hold me to that.  Usagi was at the WTC on 9/11> and was killed.  The remaining Senshi track down Osama bin Laden and> give him a "the reason you suck" lecture, but he gets away from the> international troops following in their wake and dies an ignoble> death in a traffic accident some years later.  The end of the fic is> the Archangel Michael imploring Usagi to leave Hell  because she> doesn't belong there, but she insists on staying there to read holy> texts to the hijackers to help alleviate their torment. The title was> something like "Who Will Read The Sutras", which references a koan-> like passage included in the story, where a Master tells a Student he> will be in Hell after he dies, because someone has to be there to> read the sutras to the Student.> > You would think that remembering that much I should be able to> rewrite it from memory, but no dice.  <grin>Allyn Yonge, apparently. Here you go.(I have a near-totally-comprehensive archive of everything that's comethrough the FFML in a long, long time. I'm more than willing to share itas needed, although not all of it is in a format that's suitable fordoing so at the drop of a hat.)--    The WandererThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable onepersists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore allprogress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw-------------- next part --------------Subject: [FFML] [fanfic][SM] Who will read the sutras?> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:15:20 -0400> From: Allyn Yonge <ayonge at yahoo.com>> To: ffml at anifics.com<snip>The difference is almost certainly the fact that the fic was an*attachment*, not in the body of the message, and so whatever part ofyour mail stack is reducing all whitespace didn't have a chance to getat its newlines; the attachment was just reproduced inline verbatim.Personally, I'm inclined to blame the fact that (judging from messageheaders) you seem to be using A: Webmail, and B: more specifically, AOLWebmail. Webmail tends to be biased towards HTML E-mail to begin with,and I would not be in the slightest bit surprised if AOL were doingstupid and squirrelly things with non-HTML E-mail nowadays.--    The WandererThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable onepersists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore allprogress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw-------------- next part --------------A non-text attachment was scrubbed...Name: signature.ascType: application/pgp-signatureSize: 833 bytesDesc: OpenPGP digital signatureURL: <http://www.chez-vrolet.net/pipermail/ffml/attachments/20181110/0fcf26c3/attachment.sig> .-------Anime/Manga Fanfiction Mailing List--------.         |   Administrators - ffml-admins at chez-vrolet.net   |         |   Unsubscribing - ffml-request at chez-vrolet.net   |         |         Put 'unsubscribe' in the subject         |         `----- FAQ http://chez-vrolet.net/ffml/faq.txt ----'
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