loony_moony

I don't know how many of you people are on the "HarryxLucius" yahoo group, but those of you who are susbcribed will probably know what I'm talking about.
Last week, a couple of authors who wrote a 9-chapter fic called "All Adoration, Duty, and Obedience" submitted all of it to the group and posted all of it in one time. Now, every chapter of that fic (sans the epilogue) was at the very least 100KB-size, and they submitted it all in one time. What those authors didn't take into count is the fact that most email addresses they were automatically sending their fic to were 2MB accounts who were accepting emails from other sources along with that yahoo group, like hotmail perhaps?
Those 2 idiots who posted that fic not only posted a 800+kb file at once on the group, they also wrote a broken link for the archive!
Totally, indesputably UNACCEPTABLE.
As I told that to

mimbulus, she told me whenever she gets those kinds of fics, she copies them and edits them. Now I don't mean to be rude, but I am not going to fight with my Word software just because I have to transform an email-ed fic to a regular document fic. I like to read those fics as emails, and keep them that way. That's why I haven't been able to erase it in one time. I'm not spoiled in that sense, I'm merely a yahoo group subscriber and as such am entitled to read the posts as emails and not being have to transform them just because the author was stupid enough to post a too-long email. Not to mention I wasn't sure at first whether it's worth to even consider putting effort with all the transforming work, because that fic has certain problems in it, though I'm not referring to them in here.
The "HarryxLucius" group had some serious problems lately, I know. With Yahoo Groups erasing similar groups with no advanced notice, there's a nasty smell of doom hovering over that group, not to mention petty fandom wars over "Jade Green Eyes" (yes, I saw it and immediately erased all emails talking about it, disgusted), and the fact the group is reaching its archive limit. But people, you have to do something about idiotic posts like that! Put a size limit over posting, demand proper archive-linking for big fics, anything!

Meh, I'm so out of my league here.

Hmmm...that piccie befuddles me. I'm torn between melting over his expression, or laughing about his don't-I-look-like-Claire-Huxtable looks. And YES, I know all of fandom already saw this piccie. So I'm slow on uptake. Hmph.