[net.sf-lovers] Best Fanzine?

keithl (04/26/83)

I propose that we start distributing hardcopies of net.sf-lovers to
Hugo-voting friends, and nominate it in 1984 for best fanzine.
  Any comments?

Keith Lofstrom
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fair@UCBARPA (04/28/83)

From: fair@UCBARPA (Erik E. Fair)
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Absolutely! But how about the ARPAnet digest also?

	Erik E. Fair	fair@ucb-arpa	ucbvax!fair

barmar (04/30/83)

I believe that Fanzines generally contain fan-written fiction.  I haven't
seen any of that in this newsgroup, so I don't even think we come
close to a "best fanzine".

As for the ARPANET SF-LOVERS mailing list, the problem is that noone is supposed
to know about it, at least officially.  The Arpanet, being a DoD official
network, is intended specifically for research.  Frivolous mailing lists
would probably be cancelled if they were publicized.  We have been very  worried
about the times that there have been vague references to these things in

magazine articles, such as TIME's Man-of-the-Year issue.
					barmar

kcarroll (05/02/83)

   I feel that net-sf-lovers is certainly not one of the best fanzines
that I've seen, and I've not seen very many. The only interesting
submissions I've seen in months have been a few book reviews; apart
from that, they've mostly been either flames, or requests for information
that aren't followed up with digests of responses. This makes a
good fanzine? 
   One thing I've noticed in recent months is that both the quality
and quantity of submissions to sf-lovers has dropped of markedly.
I'm trying to figure out how to ask if other sites have noticed this, too,
without getting mail from several hundred people, all saying "Me Too".
I suspect that not all the news in this group has been reaching our
site (for example, I didn't seen the article that started the 
"net.sf-lovers as a fanzine" question). Is this the case, or has the
volume of submissions to sf-lovers dropped  net-wide, in the last four 
months or so?
-Kieran A. Carroll
...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll

jss (05/04/83)

I think that a lot of the best material which might have gone to sf-lovers
has gone to books instead.
judith