From: clc@kepler.unh.edu (Christian L Claiborn)
Subject: Re: Piers Anthony
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:36:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.164058.7333@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
>Never mind.  I'm too poor a flamer for this to be doing any good, and a few
>people(Christian Claiborn in particular)are only too ready for a flamewar.

Ah!  My reputation sullied, my family disgraced.  Time for the honorable way 
out.  Abdul!  Bring the swords!  Oh hell, never mind.  At least he spelled my
name right.

>Some people, including the person who made the recent Piers Anthony post, have
>sites that >don't get< alt.fan.piers-anthony.  (Not alt.fan.anthony as I
>previously stated.)  Should we make this group rec.arts.sf.written.except.
>piers-anthony?  Or add to the charter that no discussion of Piers Anthony will
>be tolerated without jeering and ridicule?  Then perhaps you might be
>justified.  Some of you already feel justified, because "it's just an opinion."
>Maybe I should start making snide remarks about Heinlein, or whoever else I can
>think of, just to see if I can drive people out to make an alt.fan.heinlein.
>Hmmm?

Um:  First of all, we're not trying to DRIVE Anthony people away.  I have
numerous objections to Anthony, I believe in venting them.  Hell, if die-hard 
Anthony fans expect to be able to share adulation for such a bletcherous hack
without people with real (tm) taste posting their nausea, They SHOULD create 
an alt.fan group.  Rec.arts.sf.written creates discussion, flames, and people
posting in self-righteous anger.  With a fan group, you might have a rightful
case in asking people to lay off.  Here, Anthony, Anthony readers, and Anthony 
work is fair game.

>Anyway--why don't you anti-Anthony people just put the appropriate line into
>your rec.arts.sf.written killfiles, if you can't stand watching discussion of
>his work?  And post your snide remarks to junk or alt.flame or alt.dev.null or
>somewhere?  Please?

Why don't the rabid Anthony'ers put US in their killfiles?  I'm much more 
tolerable when you can't see my posts.  Hell, if you like the Xanth stuff, 
you'll probably object to ANY of my tastes in SF.  There'll be no love lost
over here, I assure you.

Sir, I appreciate your indignation at our ridiculing of Anthony and his 
'literature.'  However, such is the by-product of people posting freely about
what they believe and read in a newsgroup dedicated to it.  Instead of asking
us to censor ourselves, it is your duty instead to ignore us.

Go nuts.

					clc
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