> I've gotten around that in two different ways (for the two different > archives I've got): > > Fries is only 'populated' by authors who have specifically given me > permission to archive them... and I saved the permission emails, so I > have proof. I just wish I had help collecting the stories. I'm gonna tout > for assistants at MediaWest. Hope I get some.
Yes, I have that, I've got blanket permission from most of the authors at the archive. What gets missed is the new authors who don't list my archive in their archive header or want archivists to email them. I understand the author's wish/need/requirement to know where their stories are, for a variety of reasons. But being an archivist is like being a teacher, there's one of me and a whole bunch of them! And it's hard for me to find the time to email them. Plus, when I have done this in the past, I got no answer at all on half of the requests I sent. These were personal emails that I sent, not a form letter, had the story title (and the list tag) in the subject and I got nada. So that's frustrating too. > Sihn's Empire is 'populated' by stories posted to the lists. Each list > has gotten an email (and gets it every month) stating that all stories > posted to the list *will* be archived unless the author specifically puts > Archive: No (or some clear variant) in the zero post. Each of Sihn's > lists has a "Fic Wrangler" (well, the *are* Mag 7 lists!) to collect the > stories and email them to me. Yes, there's two XF slash lists that anything posted there gets archived, unless they have Archive: No in them. When I took over the archive 2 1/2 years ago, they were very busy, they were for all XF slash fic and discussion and 90% of all slash XF fic got posted to one or both of them. Over the last couple years, the fandom has splintered, there's at least 40 different XF slash lists, focusing on different pairings or characters and the two primary lists are now dead. I don't mind joining all the lists, I have filters so that most discussion gets trashed, so that's not a problem. But about three quarters of the splinter lists have their own archives run by the listowners or they are run by other archivists. And only about 15 to 20 of the 40 lists are really active, anyway. (And I really miss the diversity of the big slash fic/discuss list that encompassed all the characters and pairings!) I certainly don't begrudge the other archives, I think there's plenty of room but having a central archive for all slash fic for a fandom is a good thing (imho), so I get stuck. I end up archiving only authors who've been around for awhile with very few new authors and all the fic by new authors gets lost in Yahoo's message archives which are now subject to quotas that automatically delete the older messages. > Makes my job *much* easier. <sigh> I wish I could find a way to make mine easier.... alice ttlg http://idiotbox.populli.net/ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. (Really advanced computers will also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer.) -- Things Computers Can Do in Movies _______________________________________________ Fanficwebdesign mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://populli.net/mailman/listinfo/fanficwebdesign_populli.net
