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cdaveI've been "breaking into fandom" in super slow motion for about three years now. Mostly due to other time constraints. FIJAGDH. But partially due to learning the language etc.
One of the books I remember reading from my local library as a teenager was Surfing on the Internet : a nethead's adventure on-line. Published in 1995 it was at little out of date even then. One of the random bits of advice between the chapters on MUDs and cybersex, was the advice to lurk for a while before posting to newsgroups, lest you attack a flame war.
(That and "You can surf the net, work, socialise, and sleep. Pick three. Caffeine can substitute for sleep.")
However fanzine's (and student radio shows thinking on it) have a different attitude[1], encouraging contributions and Letters of Comment.
So, having received my first fanzine in the post (rather than by hand), I'm at a bit of a loss as to the un-written rules. I've not had time this month to scrape my thoughts together coherently enough to say what I want to in a letter. So I've just handed them a doodle. Now: can I post it on here? Should I wait until after the next issue to see what they've done with it? Should I have signed it? If so with my initials, as "normally" do with the few worthwhile (admittedly very few) doodles I do, or sign it as cdave, seeing as how most fans who know me, don't know my surname?
And should I post them the LoC when done? I know I value physical letters far more than emails, but then I don't have to re-type them.
I'm sure these things aren't important, but I do think about them.
[1] Now at least. Hearing some of the discussions about old fanzine's and the "kill the f*cker" (metaphorically) game against the noobs is quite odd against today's fandom.
One of the books I remember reading from my local library as a teenager was Surfing on the Internet : a nethead's adventure on-line. Published in 1995 it was at little out of date even then. One of the random bits of advice between the chapters on MUDs and cybersex, was the advice to lurk for a while before posting to newsgroups, lest you attack a flame war.
(That and "You can surf the net, work, socialise, and sleep. Pick three. Caffeine can substitute for sleep.")
However fanzine's (and student radio shows thinking on it) have a different attitude[1], encouraging contributions and Letters of Comment.
So, having received my first fanzine in the post (rather than by hand), I'm at a bit of a loss as to the un-written rules. I've not had time this month to scrape my thoughts together coherently enough to say what I want to in a letter. So I've just handed them a doodle. Now: can I post it on here? Should I wait until after the next issue to see what they've done with it? Should I have signed it? If so with my initials, as "normally" do with the few worthwhile (admittedly very few) doodles I do, or sign it as cdave, seeing as how most fans who know me, don't know my surname?
And should I post them the LoC when done? I know I value physical letters far more than emails, but then I don't have to re-type them.
I'm sure these things aren't important, but I do think about them.
[1] Now at least. Hearing some of the discussions about old fanzine's and the "kill the f*cker" (metaphorically) game against the noobs is quite odd against today's fandom.
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Date: 2008-07-03 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-03 10:45 pm (UTC)I like the idea of hand posted letter though. I think (If I ever finish the LoC) I'll post one, and email one. The email costs nothing extra.
As for posting the doodle, I only have a fairly poor quality photo anyway. Couldn't be bothered to dig out the scanner :)