[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: A Question About ff.n

[heidit at netbox.com]

In a message dated 1/21/2002 5:23:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
nizbet_noni at hotmail.com writes:


> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "franzjoseph1916" <EHowland at A...> wrote:
> > I was reading threads about 'the exodus from ff.n" and I was 
> > wondering if someone could explain to me what happened with 
> > the whole plagurism thing.

I just wanted to clairify that the summary on FA is certainly too brief to be 
a full explanation of what happened, and Flourish (who has completely 
authorship of it, and manages the Primer) just put it in there because last 
summer, people were asking. Since it's been so long, and there are so many 
newbies, she's been working on new articles for the primer, and an 
explanation of this situation will be part of it.

I was a history major back in college, and I think that the best way to learn 
about something historical is to go to the source - that's why for this, I 
recommend focusing on the comments made contemporaneous to the event. Start 
with message 1061 at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cassie_and_rhysenn/messages/ and read through 
for a few days. Also, for a contemporaneous account from someone who was then 
on the ffn team, read Colin Jackson's post at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_FanFiction/message/3251or start from message 
6361 at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ParadigmOfUncertainty/ (but if you do 
read PoU, make sure you look at messages 5373 and 5447 (from Peg Kerr).
I know it's a lot to read through, but I really do think that it's the only 
way to get a clear understanding of what happened then.

heidi tandy
personally and on behalf of nobody


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