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[KathyK]

> << KathyK, who would now never send fanmail >>

Catlady asked:
 
> Why not?

KathyK:

I just don't see how my sending fan mail to anyone would be a
worthwhile thing for anyone.  I wouldn't have anything to say that
hasn't been heard a million times before and I wouldn't want to waste
my time sending something that was merely an "OMG You are awesome"
message, which is pretty much all I am capable of saying when I become
an obsessive fan the way I was with HP.*  I feel it would be
particularly pointless and redundant for me to send fan mail to
someone as famous as JKR, who probably has millions of letters telling
her how great we think she is and thus doesn't need another piece of
mail she'll never manage to get to that says the same thing as many
others.

I'm not against fan letters.  I'm just against me sending them. 

Did that make any sense?  

KathyK


*Unless I, for instance, meet John Linnell at a signing and tell him
that They Might Be Giants are bankrupting me.  That's not quite the
same as "OMG You are awesome," though it's because of the Awesome that
I say such stupid things.