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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 20:13:44 -0400
From: Ben Walker <benwalkr@udel.edu>
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Er, how?

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.

I can see Ryouga having a hotmail account or indeeed any email so that he can
keep contact with people when he ends up all over the place. A cel phone is out
of his price rande and pagers have limited range but you can always find a
library with a terminal. I can also see Nabiki, Kasumi and Akane on line (in
that order) Nabiki because she's an info=power believer. Kasumi because if Nabs
had a computer and Kasumi's home all day its a nice thing for her to do in her
spare time. and akane could have an account through school. I can aslo see Ukou
having a computer because damn near every small business has one, its
essential. Mousse I can see as a programmer even, tie his hair back into a
ponytail and you've got it, glasses, tall and thin, kinda geeky, relatively
intelligent and logical (at least in relation to most of the nerima crew)
trouble with women and subsists mostly on chineese food. yep basic programmer
profile. besides we've never seen Mousse's room he could have one, he could
even keep a laptop in his robes (or a Cray for that matter, it is Mousse) I
wouldn't mind working on this story idea but I'd like to collaborate with
someone as I just don't have that all much time.