On 5/22/18 4:08 PM, Kip Ingram wrote:
Ugh. I doubt I'll do that. So I guess you're saying this group is dead.
USENET is dead. And this particular group has been dead since the show
was still in production, replaced by rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.
I'll just watch it for a while and drop it from my subscribe list if
nothing happens.
Twitter is a much lesser platform - does it even thread in any sort
of effective way?
It recognizes the concept of replies, though not, as far as I know, such sophistications as forks. But, realistically speaking, for celebrities
to communicate with ordinary people, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
are today’s world, and, of those three, Twitter is, on the whole, the
most satisfactory.
If I had a good way to do Twitter via the console
I might consider it, but... YUCK.
John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/22/18 8:35 AM, Kip Ingram wrote:
Good morning folks. So, it's been many years since I've done much
on usenet in general, and r.a.s.t.b5 in particular. I hung out
here (or in the moderated group - can't remember for sure). The
one that jms participated in. Just blew my mind that the key guy
associated with a show took the time to engage with the fans the
way he did. I just decided to wade back in because I've been
re-watching the series, and enjoying it tremendously.
What is our attitude about potential spoilers these days? Do I need
to be as careful as I would have back then, or do we generally
assume that someone wouldn't be here if they hadn't been through
the whole series? There are a number of things I'd enjoy kicking
around, and I don't want to lessen anyone's enjoyment.
Is there perhaps a place I can go read "the rules" for this sort
of thing? I used to know all this stuff, but it's been a LONG
time, so thanks in advance for your patience as I get myself
back up to speed.
JMS has expressed a wish for this new generation of fan traffic to meet
on Twitter.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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