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 uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,chico,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!teklabs!tekcad!keithl CSnet: keithl@tek ARPAnet:keithl.tek@rand-relay
fair@UCBARPA (04/28/83)
From: fair@UCBARPA (Erik E. Fair) Received: from UCBARPA.ARPA by UCBVAX.ARPA (3.332/3.21) id AA00324; 27 Apr 83 20:02:03 PDT (Wed) To: net-sf-lovers@BERKELEY 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