I tried direct mail to Jo Grant, but I get mail bounces - my apologies
therefore for sucking up bandwidth. My message to Jo was in response to
his query as to whether people wanted to see stories on the TML. Here is
my answer:
This is a yes vote on fiction on the TML.
I could tolerate probably up to a piece of fiction a mailing (ie one
per day), so long as each piece was about half the length of what
Scott Kellogg typically posts for his 4.5th frontier war stuff.
Alternatively, I could probably be just as tolerant of two to three pieces
a week, each of which was as long as what Scott currently posts for fiction.
In general, the PBEM episodes, even though they show up once in a blue moon,
are too long to digest all at once; also making hard copy of them
to bring home to my traveller group is difficult. When the TML is that
long I have to schedule the LONG personal print job for after hours, instead
of during lunch.
My tolerance for fiction on the TML would probably go out the window if the
quality were bad. So far, however, I and my off-line "lurkers" have enjoyed
what we've seen so far (except our ref keeps getting ideas...).
How's that for a long vague list of ill-defined boundary conditions?
Catie Helm
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