The TESC restrictions on Usenet (we couldn't have it) seriously reduced the number of things I've been online fannish about. I was on a Tori Amos mailing list, the Derby list, and a good many general purpose boards of a talky nature.

I enabled my X-Files fannishness by lurking in various places. I've been on lists for Smallville, Firefly, and Monk, but I have an acute hate-on for mailing list communication, so I never really used any of those.

Oh, I was on the Jane Ross Ewing update list for a while, too, but that's not quite the same thing.

The racing communities, which I was a part of off and on from about 1994, were my first real single-focus online fannishness.

I think I technically had some sort of actual position in Anime Club, but as Anime Club was basically A Bunch of Us Make Popcorn and Take Over the Lounge for Hours, I'm not sure that counts as fannish.

I'm on a Steven Brust list, and I get Charles deLint's mailing list. I tried to get on an LMB list but it seemed to be defunct. I'm subscribed to the forums at Bright Weavings, the GGKay website and, oh wait, this list is going to get long. Huh. Oh shit, I'm even on a Robin of Sherwood list still.

At least I don't still get the gaming apazines on stencil (Alarums and Excursions) that I used to get in the late 80's.

Alarums and Excursions. Heh, I know the woman who puts that out.(She also puts out a filk 'zine called Xenofilkia)

I'm not on a mailing list for any one author, but I am on DorothyL, a mystery listserv.(I'm about two months behind on the digests, but oh, well)

I'm still officially on Dunnetwork, although I haven't posted or read in yonks. I joined an LMB list for about two weeks at one point, until the volume got insane, and was on a deLint list for about 12 hours until the wannablessedbes drove me insane.

For a long time I was subscribed to sf-lovers.digest, which was a fabulous service compiled by some guy at Rutgers, who would compile all the substantive posts from rasf-w, rasf-tv, etc, and send them out to people who didn't have Usenet access. Eventually he got sick or went away, and I find Usenet less accessible now than it used to be, Google Groups notwithstanding.

I was on rasf-w and some tv groups in about 89 and 90, where I ran into fellow Dunnett fans and RoS fans for the first time.

Alarums and Excursions. Heh, I know the woman who puts that out

Sheryl, you know Lee Gold? Wow, as much as I know fandom is a small world, it always surprises me how small it is.

For a long time I was subscribed to sf-lovers.digest, which was a fabulous service compiled by some guy at Rutgers

I remember there being some stuffy grognardism about how the list was kind of clunky or inefficiently put together. People (non-subscribers) were always complaining about that list. I wonder if that eventually did it in, because it seemed like a great service for those who didn't have time to read all the posts.

grognardism

Ooh, new word! What's it mean?

From Stephen King's EW column this week:

I'm thankful that Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, was almost as good as its lyrical first reviews...but it's not Harry Potter for grown-ups, as so many of them said. Harry Potter is Harry Potter for grown-ups, you dweebs.

Heh.

I love Stephen King. I think his essays and columns are better than his fiction, a lot of the time. I've got a collection of his short stories, and most of the time I re-read the preface more than the stories. Of course, I also don't need the image of the killer ironing machine in my head, either.

Sheryl, you know Lee Gold? Wow, as much as I know fandom is a small world, it always surprises me how small it is.

Well, the world of filk fandom(where I know Lee from) is even smaller. At the very least I see her at WorldCon, if not at any of the filk cons.(We live on opposite coasts)

Ooh, new word! What's it mean?

Hee. I tend to use it to mean the tendency of cranky internet or gaming oldtimers to belittle other people's technical skills and engage in endless debate about stats and systems.

It refers to Napoleon's veteran soldiers (grumblers) and modern usage comes out of wargaming.

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