Stormwalker wrote:

Karsten Sethre wrote:

Please, if you post part of a multi-part fanfic, list in the message
where the other parts can be found. It's very frustrating to see a
post of, say, chapter 5 of something that looks good but has no
indication of where the other parts are, especially when it hasn't
been posted (and thus archived) to RAAC yet. So please, if a story
isn't all in one post, please list a WWW/FTP/email address where
previous parts can be found.

Unfortunately, this is not always possible.  For example, in my
revisions of Bubblegum Collision, I will not be archiving the story
until it is finished (which, considering the reviews of part six, will
be a while yet), and therefore the only way to get it is by private
email to me.  (I'll gladly send out copies, though, upon request).

If you can't find the previous parts of a story, try mailing the author;
usually they'll be happy to receive such a request and take care of it
quickly.

Maybe there is a less complicated means, if the archive of posts
works as it used to. Each post to the ML is archived in said, under
a file which name is in the X-Mailing-List: field of the post.

So, when the author gets his/her post back from the ML, reading the
field on the returned mail will provide the needed archive filename.

Including it in the next part will then make tons of FFML readers
happy, since the archive is retrievable via mail (see FAQ)

A++

J.