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blakes7-d Digest				Volume 00 : Issue 205

Today's Topics:
	 Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
	 Re: [B7L] aussies
	 Re: [B7L] Re: winspit quarry trip
	 Re: [B7L] Re: potential Gareth Thomas sighting
	 Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
	 out-takes
	 Re: [B7L] Revolutions past  - so off topic we should be kicked off by now.
	 Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
	 Re: [B7L] A Patriotic Fourth
	 Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
	 Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
	 Re: [B7L] Darrow in Dr.Who
	 Re: [B7L] Darrow in Dr.Who
	 Re: [B7L] Avatars
	 Re: [B7L] out-takes
	 [B7L] B7 Items for sale
	 Re: [B7L] Avatars
	 Re: [B7L] A Patriotic Fourth
	 Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
	 Re: [B7L] Avatars
	 Re: [B7L] Darrow in Dr.Who
	 Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
	 Re: [B7L] Darrow in Dr.Who
	 Re: [B7L] Avatars
	 [B7L] so off topic we should be kicked off by now.
	 [B7L] A question about ethics
	 Re: [B7L] A question about ethics

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:12:07 EST
From: "J MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
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>From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk>
><snigger> "Here, Ma, have a salmon sandwich."

Smoked salmon, surely?

Regards
Joanne


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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:18:33 EST
From: "J MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [B7L] aussies
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>From: Joanne <calliste@bigpond.com>
>>Melbournites all. <G>
>>(except me )
>>Min.xxx
>Actually, I'm from Sydney.

I'm not. But I'm here anyway...

Regards
Joanne
(avoiding commuting from Newcastle)


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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:20:50 EST
From: "J MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: winspit quarry trip
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>From: "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com>
><How many Aussies are there on this list??>
><At least four. you, me, Joanne, Ross...>
>Me. :-)

I did wonder...

Regards
Joanne


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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:23:03 EST
From: "J MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: potential Gareth Thomas sighting
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>From: JEB31538@cs.com
>Now we know that Gareth can dance.

Now I have to see this one!

Regards
Joanne



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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:38:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: padme@bantha.org (Beanish)
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
Message-Id: <20000717233801.3706E66B05@bantha.org>

sjk3@cornell.edu wrote:
:      Wasn't Sarah Jane Smith from Croydon?

South Croydon, to be precise.

Claudia
-- 
  He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of
  things that *are*, and it was changing him.  -- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:12:52 +1000
From: "Roger the Shrubber" <powerplay@cheerful.com>
To: "blake's seven" <blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: out-takes
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Isobel wrote
Apparently there were Blakes 7 out-takes on a BBC programme in the 
UK a week ago.. 
***
Out-takes are usually good fun. 

On cable TV they often use 5 - 10 minute filler programs between scheduled
shows. Often these are blooper shows of some description. (And who can get
enough of those poncy show-jumpers falling into the water ?!    ;->)

 There was one such program which was a BBC collection (the host reminded
me of the male Holly from Red Dwarf) & it had an exuberant Vila holding a
huge gun and every time he tried to fire it, it failed to go off. Episode
name anyone ?
Ika also mentioned another one they played between Servie & Travis in her
office. IIRC it was Travis having a problem with a gadget (communicator ?)
and he cracks up, while Jackie remained stony-faced to the end. Ever the
pro.



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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:07:09 EDT
From: B7Morrigan@aol.com
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
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Gnog wrote:
>  And it worked. Throughout series 4 we hear of planets be brought back under
>  Federation control. Therefore they had chosen to be outside Federation
>  control. Blake (with the unwitting help of the Americ...oops Andomedans, 
who
>  came in right at the end) actually got what he wanted. Same it didn't last.

I WARNED the rest of you that if we kept letting Gnog in this country -- 
supposedly on "business" -- he'd reveal our true form.  All right, now which 
Yank is going to blob over to England to seal this leak?  I have a new tea 
kettle if you need transport.
 

Morrigan (Trish)
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 06:31:00 +0100
From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
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Joanne:

> >From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk>
> ><snigger> "Here, Ma, have a salmon sandwich."
> 
> Smoked salmon, surely?

Nah, the Royals are just a jumped-up middle class family. Tinned salmon.


Una

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:52:58 +0100
From: "Nyder" <nyder@moore.britishlibrary.net>
To: <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>, "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com>
Subject: Re: [B7L] A Patriotic Fourth
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Ellynne,

> I'm very fond of the symbolism behind ours (side issue: political
> implications in the various rebellions in B7 having no flag or symbol of
> their own [other than Blake]. Did this reflect a lack of unity [all
> groups apparently fighting under their own, already in use, local
> standards], a feeling that they were only out to reform the system
> instead of overthrow it, or some other factor [perhaps they asked the
> Liberator's unknown fashion designer to come up with something but could
> never quite bring themselves to fight under black leather studded with
> silver stars]?).

Much as I like the third option, I'm inclined to go for the first one...
it's interesting though that all the resistances we see in B7 do seem to be
pretty much grassroots, independent movements, and yet also seem to be in
some sort of communication. Is there a sort of rebel Comintern operating
here?

Back on topic for once,

Fiona

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:04:00 +0100
From: "Nyder" <nyder@moore.britishlibrary.net>
To: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner@tesco.net>, "b7" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [B7L] Revolutions past


> All references to 'Britain' should also include the Canadian, Australian,
> New Zealand, Indian etc contributions, which were considerable (to say the
> least!).

Thank you!

> women.  What gets up my nose is the tunnel-visioned mentality of union
> jack-waving morons trying to claim that *England* won the Second World
War.

Not to mention claim that everything has gone utterly downhill since then,
which they promptly blame on Labour, the immigrants and the French.

> (Much the same could be said of the First World War too.

Although the flag-waving morons seem to refer to that one a lot less-- my
theory is because the heroes and villains are much less clear-cut. One
reason, I suspect, for the popularity of WWII among the flag-wavers is cos
it can be reduced to a simple story: from Cowboys and Indians to British
(and/or Americans) and Nazis (I was wryly amused recently to watch a wartime
film in which the main action was set in Italy but the villains all happened
to be German, which makes one wonder). There's an obvious Blake's 7
parallell here which I'm not even going to bother to make.

> to achieving much, even with colonial assistance.  I'm not happy with the
> way all attention on that war seems to focus on Flanders, with a sidelong
> glance at Lawrence in Palestine, when the largest army involved was the
> Austro-Hungarian, the eastern front gets very short shrift, and the
Italian
> front is almost totally ignored even though tens of thousands of men died
> there.  It's a very disproportionate perspective.)

But it doesn't make for as exciting television... there's a German
journalist of whom I'm very fond who was in the Communist Resistance in
WWII, and who repeatedly complains that German resistance members are always
being ignored and/or sidelined during any discussion of WWII, mainly cos
they don't fit the neat picture of Allies Good Germans Bad which even the
German press maintains.

Fiona

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:48:43 +0100
From: "Nyder" <nyder@moore.britishlibrary.net>
To: <sjk3@cornell.edu>, <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
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Sandra:

> >> Live From The Birthplace Of Robert Goulet,
> >>      Penny
> >
> > Live from the Birthplace of Nobody In Particular [i.e., Croydon],
> >
> > Fiona
>
>      Wasn't Sarah Jane Smith from Croydon?

She *lived* in Croydon (although by the time of The Five Doctors she'd
obviously moved house)-- they never actually said that she was *born* there,
so I'm hedging my bets.

Fiona

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:28:49 +0100
From: "Nyder" <nyder@moore.britishlibrary.net>
To: "Bob Vinisky" <bobvin@europa.com>,
        "B7 Mailing List" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Darrow in Dr.Who
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> >There is also a review of Doctor Who and the Silurians,
> Paul'sÊother episode at http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episode_guide/
> >silurians.shtmlÊbut he's not mentioned much in that review.
>
> "Secretary Rontaine" is also in that episode (as the Project
> Director). I believe he is also in one of the Dalek episodes (Genesis
> Of The Daleks (?)). In that same ep is one of the Alta's from
> Redemption (she's one of the freedom fighters).

The actor you're thinking of is Peter Miles, who plays Davros' sidekick
Nyder (pretty much a villain in his own right really) in "Genesis of the
Daleks," and is also Professor Whitaker in "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" as
well as Dr Lawrence in "Silurians." Actually he's been in just about *any*
telefantasy show you care to name, and is apparently still at it. The
actress is Harriett Philpin, playing Bettan, one of the Thals.

Fiona

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:45:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Wendy S. Penberriss" <penberriss@yahoo.com>
To: Christine+Steve <cgorman@idirect.com>,
        B7 Mailing List <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Darrow in Dr.Who
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--- Christine+Steve <cgorman@idirect.com> wrote:

> The review is quite good - but its been too long
> since I've seen this episode, so I don't know if its
> as bad as the early reviews make out.

I've seen it recently, and it is, it is. Paul is
lovely to watch, but unfortunately he's the *only*
thing that makes it worth watching. I recommend
watching it on video and keeping one finger on the
fast-forward.

> There is also a review of Doctor Who and the
> Silurians, Paul's other episode at
>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episode_guide/silurians.shtml

Which is a much better story but we see much less of
Paul... sigh.

Wendy


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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:47:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Wendy S. Penberriss" <penberriss@yahoo.com>
To: "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com>, blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] Avatars
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--- "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com> wrote:

> And, with only the mildest of spoilers on the new
> Harry Potter book
> (which still qualifies as a full fledged warning for
> those who haven't
> read the book), Snape reminds me a lot more of Avon
> than he did before.

D'you think? I think maybe Travis I.

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Date: Tue Jul 18 14:44:50 BST 2000
From: Ika <blake@gaudaprime.co.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] out-takes
Message-Id: <200007181350.OAA29787@smtp.uk2net.com>

"Darren R"/"Roger the Shrubber" (not sure which one makes more sense, actually):

> Ika also mentioned another one they played between Servie & Travis in her
> office. IIRC it was Travis having a problem with a gadget (communicator ?)
> and he cracks up, while Jackie remained stony-faced to the end. Ever the
> pro.

She cracks up eventually, but they cut the out-take just as she starts 
laughing. (Sorry, I notice this stuff due to living with a Jackie obsessive. I 
had to watch it like 20 times with her.)

Love, Ika


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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:23:27 -0700
From: "Kinkade, Carol A" <Carol.Kinkade@West.Boeing.com>
To: "'blakes7@lysator.liu.se'" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] B7 Items for sale
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Hello

I'd be interested in selling the items below if anyone is interested in
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Thank you

These prices do not include postage.

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Date: Tue Jul 18 15:21:14 BST 2000
From: Ika <blake@gaudaprime.co.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] Avatars
Message-Id: <200007181426.PAA03938@smtp.uk2net.com>

Ellyne wrote:

[snip cool stuff about some books]
 
> So, kind of 'if Avon were Travis.'

Which is ironically a (PGP) story idea which hit me like a bolt from the blue 
yesterday (somebody please warn me how many times this has been done before, so 
I don't waste too much blood & sweat over it - I'm still a newbie)

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Date: Tue Jul 18 15:26:57 BST 2000
From: Ika <blake@gaudaprime.co.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] A Patriotic Fourth
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Ellyne:

> 
> Let's put in a special mention for old idealism (hey, we all know Blake
> formed his political attitudes watching old films from the midtwentieth
> century, especially Frank Capra - and he probably loved Jimmy Stewart).

So true! And I thought I was the only one who'd spotted it!

> 
> And, although I think the U.K.'s flag is lovely (and I will admit, under
> pressure, that ours does have a strong 18th century artistic sense that
> is perhaps a bit much by modern standards, though it's nice to have a
> flag that's easy to spot [half the point of The Star Spangled Banner]),
> I'm very fond of the symbolism behind ours (side issue: political
> implications in the various rebellions in B7 having no flag or symbol of
> their own [other than Blake]. Did this reflect a lack of unity [all
> groups apparently fighting under their own, already in use, local
> standards], a feeling that they were only out to reform the system
> instead of overthrow it, or some other factor [perhaps they asked the
> Liberator's unknown fashion designer to come up with something but could
> never quite bring themselves to fight under black leather studded with
> silver stars]?).

I went on about this at some length in a paper I wrote a couple of months ago - 
how the "Blake's 7" symbol is actually the Federation's symbol with what is 
essentially graffiti on it saying, um, "Blake's 7" - so the rebels don't have a 
sign of their own. I think it's a bit of all the things you were talking about, 
but essentially a recognition that fighting *against* something implicates you 
in that something (all the Rumours of Death stuff - is Avon just as bad as 
Shrinker? - and the Blake/Travis interaction, etc). You can never quite bring 
about a whole new system - you're always to some extent "reforming" rather than 
revolting (tee-hee). You can't fight a dirty opponent and stay clean yourself 
(um, except maybe in 'Duel', but that didn't really work out in the end.)  

Love,
Ika

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:53:08 +0100
From: "Nyder" <nyder@moore.britishlibrary.net>
To: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk>,
        <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
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> Joanne:
>
> > >From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk>
> > ><snigger> "Here, Ma, have a salmon sandwich."
> >
> > Smoked salmon, surely?
>
> Nah, the Royals are just a jumped-up middle class family. Tinned salmon.

And when the press aren't watching, it's back to good old tuna mayonnaise...

Fiona

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:49:30 +0200
From: "Marian de Haan" <maya@multiweb.nl>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Avatars
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Reacting to Ellynne's:
>> So, kind of 'if Avon were Travis.'<<

Ika asked:
>Which is ironically a (PGP) story idea which hit me like a bolt from the
blue yesterday (somebody please warn me how many times this has been done
before, so I don't waste too much blood & sweat over it - I'm still a
newbie)<

The comic strip Prime Legacy by Nik Spender, in the Horizon newsletter, uses
that theme.  I love it - it has a good plot, lots of action and is
beautifully drawn (all IMO of course).  Avon looks gorgeous with an eye
patch :-)

Marian

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:55:29 +0100
From: "Julie Horner" <jihorner@dial.pipex.com>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Darrow in Dr.Who
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----- Original Message -----
From: Christine+Steve

>The review is quite good - but its been too long since I've seen this
>episode, so I don't know if its as bad as the early reviews make out.

I recently saw this for the first time - courtesy of my local library
which was having an old video sale, so for £2 I thought I might
as well get it.

I am glad I didn't pay much more for it, but having said that I did
actually enjoy it. Not just for Paul, but also because I thought it
was screamingly funny. Yes, viewed as a bit of OTT camp-comedy
it was well worth £2.

Julie

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:50:14 +0100
From: "Julie Horner" <jihorner@dial.pipex.com>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Revolutions past
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Una McCormack" 
> Joanne:
> 
> > >From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk>
> > ><snigger> "Here, Ma, have a salmon sandwich."
> > 
> > Smoked salmon, surely?
> 
> Nah, the Royals are just a jumped-up middle class family. Tinned salmon.
> 

At least then the dear old Queen Mum doesn't have to watch out
for the bones. I'm sure I have heard of at least two occasions when
she has been rushed in to hospital with a fish bone in her throat.
They probably have a team of medics on stand-by every time
she says "I just fancy a bit of sole for tea..."

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:51:51 -0400
From: "Christine+Steve" <cgorman@idirect.com>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Darrow in Dr.Who
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Julie replied about Timelash


> I recently saw this for the first time - courtesy of my local library
> which was having an old video sale, so for £2 I thought I might
> as well get it.
>
> I am glad I didn't pay much more for it, but having said that I did
> actually enjoy it. Not just for Paul, but also because I thought it
> was screamingly funny. Yes, viewed as a bit of OTT camp-comedy
> it was well worth £2.

Defiantly worth 2 pounds!  But then I'm a bit sad and have almost all the Dr
Who videos released by the Beeb.  Don't have Timelash though.

Actually the Beeb have just release Time Flight too, which again isn't a
great story.  I wonder how they choose which one's to release?  I'm sure
I'll still get a copy when I next head to the UK.


Steve Dobson

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:30:05 EDT
From: B7Morrigan@aol.com
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>  --- "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com> wrote:
>  
>  > And, with only the mildest of spoilers on the new
>  > Harry Potter book
>  > (which still qualifies as a full fledged warning for
>  > those who haven't
>  > read the book), Snape reminds me a lot more of Avon
>  > than he did before.
>  
That must be why I've always found it difficult to dislike Snape in the first 
3 books.  I'll probably be at Borders today or tomorrow now that you've given 
me reason. <sigh>  Next thing you'll tell me is that it was Snape that shot 
Harry's father...

Morrigan (Trish)
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:54:38 +0100
From: "Andrew Ellis" <Andrew.D.Ellis@btinternet.com>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] so off topic we should be kicked off by now.
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>(with the unwitting help of the Americ...oops Andomedans,
>who
>>  came in right at the end) actually got what he wanted. Same it didn't
last.
>
>I WARNED the rest of you that if we kept letting Gnog in this country --
>supposedly on "business" -- he'd reveal our true form.  All right, now
which
>Yank is going to blob over to England to seal this leak?  I have a new tea
>kettle if you need transport.
>
>
>Morrigan (Trish)


You can probably get me in mid September or the end of October.

Gnog

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:58:02 +0100
From: "Pat Sumner" <pat@freedomcity.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] A question about ethics
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From: "Marian de Haan" <maya@multiweb.nl>
> The comic strip Prime Legacy by Nik Spender, in the Horizon
newsletter, uses
> that theme.  I love it - it has a good plot, lots of action and is
> beautifully drawn (all IMO of course).  Avon looks gorgeous with an
eye
> patch :-)

I liked episode (4?) of this so much I bought the back issues
containing the previous episodes.
In one episode, showing Avon with patch unconscious, the picture looks
a *lot* like Blake. I wonder if the original storyline was going to
use Blake instead of Avon?
I *can't wait* for the next magazine, so I can read episode 5!!!!


From: "Christine+Steve" <cgorman@idirect.com>
> Actually the Beeb have just release Time Flight too, which again
isn't a
> great story.  I wonder how they choose which one's to release?

They are running out of unreleased material. Of the complete stories
they hold, only 17 or so are unreleased, and one or two of them are
'coming soon'. I think that is also the reason for recent 'incomplete'
releases, and re-release of prevoiusly sold material.
 They're also apparently planning to release more DVDs (next is
'Robots of Death').

Anyway, back to Blakes 7...
I've been reading lots of fan fiction recently, and I was wondering
about my legal position.
I run a small Blakes 7 roleplaying group, with five players, all close
friends.
Would it be unethical or illegal of me to 'recycle' plot ideas from
any of these as adventures for the group?
The adventures are NOT published in any way, for profit or otherwise.
They are ONLY used to keep a small group of idiots (sorry - meant to
say 'people') happy for a few hours each week.
I realise I'm being euphemistic in using the word 'recycle', when I
should say 'plagiarise.'

Any ideas?

Pat
'I seldom comment on other people's ethics.'
                                    - Avon, Aftermath

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:14:04 EDT
From: B7Morrigan@aol.com
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] A question about ethics
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Pat wrote: 
>  I've been reading lots of fan fiction recently, and I was wondering
>  about my legal position.
>  I run a small Blakes 7 roleplaying group, with five players, all close
>  friends.
>  Would it be unethical or illegal of me to 'recycle' plot ideas from
>  any of these as adventures for the group?
>  The adventures are NOT published in any way, for profit or otherwise.
>  They are ONLY used to keep a small group of idiots (sorry - meant to
>  say 'people') happy for a few hours each week.
>  I realise I'm being euphemistic in using the word 'recycle', when I
>  should say 'plagiarise.'
>  
>  Any ideas?

The obvious idea is to ask the author of the fanfic for permission.  Those 
who are more experienced than I in the world of fandom might offer more 
advice but I think asking permission is simply a matter of courtesy.

I realize that might seem difficult but I think that many of the authors 
participate in this list or in the Freedom City list, and/or that members of 
those lists might know how to contact the author.  All you'd have to do is 
post a note that you're trying to reach a particular author and ask for help 
in doing so.  

The other obvious direction to reach an author is through the 
editor/publisher of the zine, most of whom have email addresses as well.

Morrigan (Trish)
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

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