From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V99 #248 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume99/248 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 99 : Issue 248 Today's Topics: Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:18:33 EDT From: Tigerm1019@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/16/99 8:53:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, kat@welkin.apana.org.au writes: > No, there's lots of conventions in the US. MediaWestCon, Ecclecticon > and Visions are the biggest ones (they must be big, even I've heard of > them...) Except Visions is no longer so big. They aren't having one this year and if they have one next year, it will be much smaller from what I've heard. MediaWest is still around and so is E-con though. Tiger M ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:23:18 EST From: "Joanne MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Message-ID: <19990817042318.49020.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: Kathryn Andersen >Then there's the Other List, originally >Space City, but now replaced by Freedom City, which is an "anything >goes, and you need to be an adult to join" though I gather that >they're not discussing Adult subject matter *all* the time. The Godmother assured me of this a little while ago, but I'm still wary about joining. Possibly , it's the "tasteful" mind Carol thinks I've got. Regards Joanne ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:03:31 +0100 From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Cc: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Message-ID: In message <19990817071821.A3533@welkin.apana.org.au>, Kathryn Andersen writes >On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 11:38:26PM -0400, Huldah Beasley wrote: >> >> 1. >> No adult subject matter? *sniffles, pouts* Darn. Oh well, I don't mind, >> but you're the one what's got to tell Avon he isn't gonna get any this time >> 'round :) > >I believe the Other List, Space City, sorry, Freedom City, is the >place for that. Sorry I don't have subscription details, I'm not a >member. As I recall, this list allows discussion of any topic relating to B7. Adult discussion tends to take place on FC for the sake of a quiet life and in the belief that it is good manners not to force it on those who feel uncomfortable with it when there is an alternative venue, but it is not barred from this list. > That is the family of the Blake's 7 lists. The appearance of sites like Onelist has also led to a number of other B7 lists springing up there. I believe some are actually offspring of this, for specialist discussion, others appear to have been started by those incapable of using a search engine, even Onelist's own search engine for its lists. Sample opening post - "There's nowhere on the net to discuss B7, so I've been a wonderful person and started this list". Post a few days later' "I've been so wonderful as to start this list, why isn't anyone using it? Aren't there any other B7 fans out there?" I saw Hondo had tactfully tried to inform one that it wasn't the only B7 list around. There are also several B7 newsgroups around. Most are specialist groups that aren't given world-wide distribution, having been set up by organisations that want them only available to their paying customers. The alt.fan.blakes-7 newsgroup was recently booster newgrouped, and is now more widely available, although distribution still isn't wonderful (can you AOLers get it yet?). It too is full of people who are incapable of using a search engine. "Wow, at last there's somewhere on the net to discuss B7!" -- Julia Jones "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!" The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:18:22 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Message-ID: <19990818071822.A5517@welkin.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 08:03:31AM +0100, Julia Jones wrote: > The alt.fan.blakes-7 newsgroup was recently booster newgrouped, and is > now more widely available, although distribution still isn't wonderful > (can you AOLers get it yet?). It too is full of people who are incapable > of using a search engine. "Wow, at last there's somewhere on the net to > discuss B7!" So who's going to volunteer to do a monthly posting there to point out the existance of the Lists? (I can't, I don't get news.) -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen / \ | http://home.connexus.net.au/~kat \_.--.*/ | #include "standard/disclaimer.h" v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:10:37 EDT From: Tigerm1019@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Message-ID: <5723037b.24eb8c3d@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/17/99 8:53:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, kat@welkin.apana.org.au writes: > So who's going to volunteer to do a monthly posting there to point out > the existance of the Lists? (I can't, I don't get news.) Freedom City, like Space City, has a policy of not advertising to the general public. Either people find the pointers on Judith's or Calle's sites (which isn't too difficult for anyone who can figure out how to use a search engine), or they hear about it through word of mouth from someone who already is a member, if that person thinks they'd fit in. Freedom City isn't a secret any more than Space City was, but we do prefer to be discreet. I consider news groups like alt.fan.blakes7 to be the general public and therefore would prefer that Freedom City was not advertised there. Tiger M, Freedom City list owner ------------------------------ Date: 18 Aug 1999 06:37:54 +0200 From: Calle Dybedahl To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Kathryn Andersen writes: > So who's going to volunteer to do a monthly posting there to point out > the existance of the Lists? (I can't, I don't get news.) I used to have a pointer to the list auto-posted to rec.arts.drwho once a month, but I stopped doing that not long after the Endless September started. My feeling is that enough people find their way here anyway, and I'm not at all sure that we *want* those who can't figure out a search engine to come here. However, I know I'm a cynical bastard, so if some of you out there who still have some faith in humanity want to arrange such a posting, feel free. I might even help, if you ask nicely :-) BTW, TigerM, weren't we going to regularly post subscription-info for FC here? Do you have a suitable text written? -- Calle Dybedahl, Vasav. 82, S-177 52 Jaerfaella,SWEDEN | calle@lysator.liu.se "Just about anything can be done if you are demented enough." -- Christopher C. Petro, scary.devil.monastery -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V99 Issue #248 **************************************