--- "Kaoru L. Shimitsu" <kaoru@mosquitonet.com> wrote:

Opinionated rant ahead. You've been warned.

        Yessir, Gubby.

Nope, you've got a case of mistaken ID here. He's not
Gubby; he's just opinionated. And he brought up some
*very* important ideas... 

    I was asking that there be more demand because
the damn thing is HUGE.

I don't understand your logic here. Do you mean that
the fact that it's the size of Greenland merits it
more demand? If so then, boy, are *you* on the wrong
track of thinking. 

    I was asking that there be more demand because
the damn thing is HUGE.

I believe you said that already, and it still isn't
fitting together well. The fact is, you never know
*how* many people are reading a fic because a lot of
them are too busy (read: they have lives =^_~= )to sit
down and manage a critique in their schedule. Live
with it.

    I posted it because people told me to shut up
and post it if I was going
to, instead of asking that people show more
initiative and tell me that they
REALLY wanted it to be posted.

I sense that *somebody* wants their ego stroked...

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.

DAMN STRAIGHT. Read closely, folks; this is why I'm
seriously thinking of killfiling this guy. I'm having
to store a large amount of my fics and prereader stuff
on my e-mail account because wonderful Microsuk
Internut Exploder just crashed my computer. I'm
nearing the limit of my storage; that little fic put
my WAAY over my limit. They almost erased everything I
had stored to make room for that fic. If I had been
about two minutes late, I would have lost everything.
Not a pleasant thought.

C'mon, people, it's common sense to not send a whole
bunch of huge materials through the list at once; you
run the risk of crashing the entire list.

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.

    With all due respect (Repeated: With all do
respect), I have noticed,
ELL, that your opinions are often unduly harsh and
very snide.  I am sure
there's a nicer person underneath your words, but
I'm lookin'.

Actually, that was pretty mild. I've seen people get a
lot worse (usually because they deserve it.) This was
really quite restrained, and he didn't say a thing
that overstepped the boundaries of being a flame
(hell, he didn't really come close). Please, think
before you post.

    I will apologize to you personally for the size
of the fic, but some
people told me to post it and not to "DEMAND" more
posts that wanted the
fic.  (Let me put it this way, it is bad economics
to market something very
cumbersome to time, effort, money, or whatnot and
not have a demand for it.
It's bad marketing, and bad management, hence my
"DEMAND" of people to tell
me they "WANT" the fic was not to "SATIATE" my ego,
it was to make sure
there were people on the list.. and ENOUGH people..
to post the story.)

*blinks*

*blinks again*

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! *Economics*? Ye gods, are you dense?

Hardly ANYONE sees the kind of requests that you're
wanting. Not that great to think about, but that's
life. The trick is to write for the sheer pleasure of
it, not to have adulation from the masses. (I'm glad
that's not true, 'cause then I'd be in trouble =^_^;=
) 

    One more time.  That's an apology for the size
of the fic, and an
apology for posting it all at once.  I am very
unexperienced in posting
things to the list (Messages, I have more experience
with.  Fics I do not.)

Hey, Lurker, isn't there something in the FAQ about
file sizes and posting methods? if not, it might make
something of a good addition....

I've never gonna get rid of that damn soapbox, am I?

Jess, the too-annoying-for-her-own-good LilTigre =^_~=
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