Opinionated rant ahead. You've been warned.


Okay, so I sit down after not getting around to checking my e-mail all day,
to see if anything good has passed across the list.

54 messages. Unusually long load (for me, since I check my mail
frequently), but I figured this would happen.

Waiting...waiting...damn. Someone's posted something huge.

Delete all the rolling commentary on the Sailormoon thing, get down to this
FCv2e4 thing, notice there's been replies to this notice, read what's going
on, and I'm like, 'Damn. Who does this guy think he is, refusing to post
unless people ask for it?' (That kind of behavior is reserved for guys like
*me*, folks. EARN your ego first, THEN start acting like a prick. ^_^)

Read the replies to that and all, and there's still a bad taste in my mouth
from the first notice.

Then get down to the fic. And realize what it was that was clogging up my
mail server.

Hmm. What to do about this.

Delete, delete, delete, delete, delete...okay, that takes care of that
part. Killfile Kaoru L. Shimitsu...okay, much better. Won't have to worry
about that anymore.

Extreme, you say? Hardly.

If you have a fic to post which is over 100kb, people, and which you intend
to break down into chunks for posting...

Don't post them en masse.

Post two, MAYBE three parts per day until you get the whole thing posted.

Dropping a load of messages into the server which total up to about half a
meg, and breaking it up into twelve separate messages (which wastes
bandwidth, makes a mess in peoples' inboxes, and generally irritates those
who aren't interested to begin with) is a very, very quick way to end up
having your fic padding the delete folder.

Same goes for people who like to post a mass deluge of their old fics, or
who have returned to work on an old fic and decide to repost the entire
thing. If it's big, and you plan to break it up into a lot of little
pieces, DON'T flood the list with the whole load at one time.

(Oh, and before people start flaming me...I didn't *really* killfile this
guy. I'll be tempted if he does it again, though...)


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