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Meanwhile, I love the fact that when I get into a new fandom today, I can get instant access to so much stuff on the Net, and I don't have to suffer through four years of searching and cultivating first. This is a good thing. But acting as if that's the *only* way to handle one's involvement in fandom is not such a good thing."<ref>[[Alexfandra]] posting to a private mailing list on August 19, 1998 (quoted with permission).</ref>}}
Meanwhile, I love the fact that when I get into a new fandom today, I can get instant access to so much stuff on the Net, and I don't have to suffer through four years of searching and cultivating first. This is a good thing. But acting as if that's the *only* way to handle one's involvement in fandom is not such a good thing."<ref>[[Alexfandra]] posting to a private mailing list on August 19, 1998 (quoted with permission).</ref>}}
{{Quotation|"There was just small rumbles about [netfans] until recently. It all seemed to come to a head at [[Escapade]] this year, where the people who weren't on computer made it clear that we who are on computers and the 'net were actually depriving them of some part of the fannish experience by going on without them. Definite hostility, and from some pretty level-headed sorts too. In someways, I took it (jargon alert) as an expression of classism in fandom, as they were basically accusing the net fans of either being richer, or (for the many who have net access from college) at least younger/better educated. I found it all very startling."<ref>[[Sandy Herrold]] private email dated 11/6/1996, quoted with eprmission.</ref>}}
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