----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DB Sommer" <sommert@connecttime.net>
To: "Sebastian Palm" <sebastian.palm@myrealbox.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [FFML] Re: About all these fic requests/searches...

Sebastian Palm wrote:

okay.

IIRC, the blowup started with DB Sommers making a remark to the tune of 
Kenko being incapable as a writer for only writng Ranma/Akane fics - 
which, in mine and a lot of other people's books was an insult to his 
skill, albeit a mild one.

% Hmm. I think you're getting my comments confused with Brian Randall's. 
This the Amazon Queen discussion? Looking over the comments, I think it 
was the final bit of Brian's emial you remembered (though I posted it in 
its entirety).

My memory turns out to be wrong, and I apologize for attributing Brian's 
comments to DB. I do remember that Don got kicked out as part of this 
incident, though, and that it had to do with a letter to DB that got mailed 
to the list because it bounced. I wish I still had the letters on my drive 
so I could check it out myself though, because I'm getting uncertain about 
how things connect, which is not good if I'm going to throw accusations of 
bias around. (And, of course, now that I think about it, I remember butting 
in then too with less than a complete grasp of the situation, and making a 
fool of myself. SNAFU.)

Anyway, now that my faulty grasp of history has been revealed, the point 
still stands about us losing more authors than we're gaining, several of 
them after public fights with the staff... and several of those being damned 
good authors who were a credit to fandom. That means the staff isn't doing a 
good job, IMHO.

Back to the discussion at hand, though. Our first order of business still 
has to be deciding what will in the future be allowable traffic to the list. 
Gary said he'd go with the majority opionion on both this and the web forum 
issue.

My vote, for the record, goes with keeping the mailing list format, since we 
have Sanjiyan's archive serving as a list gateway already; and opening the 
place up for more categories of fanfiction. I'm personally not opposed to 
any SF/Fantasy fics, seeing as those are the kind that Ranma tends to be 
needlessly crossed into most often to get them eligible.

Second order of business would be to fix a *good* front page for the list, 
and get it registered in places where it will be found. Get us listed at 
Rakhal's, at the Anifics forum, on Mediaminer and above all the search 
engines. Start signing reviews with "FFML Member", and get people asking 
about it. Let people know that we've expanded our scope (if applicable), and 
what we're about. ADVERTISE!

SP 



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