From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Ted: Request for Site Review
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:14:15 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Ted,

Could I get you to write a 500 or so word piece about Bill's site so
that I can run it on SFRevu as we try to do some pre-Hugo coverage?
You'd be more than welcome to run it in the WSFA journal as well.

Ernest

ern at e357.net / (703) 371 0226 hm/cell

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted White [mailto:twhite8 at cox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:45 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: hugo ballots

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:58 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: hugo ballots

> Ted,
>
> Thanks for pointing out efanzines.com, which is certainly worth
knowing
> about. I don't agree that it trumps the sites I listed, disqualifying
> myself on SFRevu, because it's a metasite not about original content
but
> about links to fanzines. Or did I miss something?

Yes.

While there *are* some links to fanzines posted elsewhere, the vast
majority are posted on that site.  The "links" are internal, from the
main
index.   In addition to all the fanzines posted -- and I'd particularly
recommend Earl Kemp's eI (Earl is a fan of my vintage, a Hugo winner for
Best Fanzine, the chair of the 1962 Chicago Worldcon, and a long-time
professional editor) -- you'll find my column of fanzine reviews, which
also ran in the WSFA JOURNAL and the clubzines of several other areas in
the U.S. and Canada, just shy of three years' worth.

Bill Burns, who hosts and runs the site, does lots of extra work for the
fanzines he hosts, including creating printable PDFs for fanzines (like
eI)
meant to be read on-screen.   Bill also posts a variety of
side-features,
such as the growing addenda to Peter Weston's WITH STARS IN MY EYES, the
NESFA Press book published for this year's Worldcon, where Weston was
Fan
Guest of Honor, most of the addenda culled from various e-lists Weston
is
on.

> I think the folks at the sites I listed have done some terrific work,
> but I wouldn't take credit for it by posting links to them.

Not at all the same thing.

--Ted White