Re: Re: Request to Authors

[Alnisa Allgood <fanfic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:57 PM +0000 5/2/04, howardrussell2000 wrote:
> My fellow 'shippers,
>
> I was asked to clarify my request and I post my answer here for you
> all.
>
> "How does posting parts as replies make finding a fic easier?"
>
> It doesn't make finding the fics easier.  It makes finding all of the
> parts of a fic easier once you've found any one part.  And it only
> applies to reading the fics in the groups message archives.


This is true, but personally I've become more and more a fan of 
groups that have some guidelines for posting fiction such as  include 
Fic in subject and designate pairing. It's amazing how much easier 
this can make navigating an archive.

Subjects like:  FIC: The Island (4a/?) B/W PG    is a lot easier to 
find and group than subjects like  Re: untitled.  Also for me, it 
means it's easier to color code. Since I keep an archive of my 
favorite newsgroups locally in Eudora, it helps to, overtime, weed 
out the random conversations, and just keep the fiction.  So 
typically 3-4 times a year, I go back and remove all conversations 
(not that they weren't enjoyable, its just that they are over).

I find this to be an easy thing to do in some groups, and a pain in 
others. It almost always boils down to groups that request fiction be 
posted using a basic template versus those that don't.  Groups that 
do request it typically have writers follow a simple format that they 
can expand upon:

	Subject includes FF or Fic as a designator, the title, the 
part, and the pairing code.
	The body includes:Title, Author, Fandom (with mixed groups), 
Pairing, Episode Spoilers, and Rating.

This makes combing through an archive, even if it's 30,000 records, 
lightning fast.

A


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