I'm feeling bratty...

[heidi]

You know, Yahoo searches are kind of interesting. I went back onto an old Yahoogroup to check something, and found that Miss Partly Bouncy, who I will not link to because she's been using clear gifs aka web beacons to track visitors to her LJ and profile page, had the following at the bottom of her posts to various mailing lists in April of 2001, ie two months before CassieGate:

Michela Ecks - mecks@... - Textual Poacher - Spastic Hale Girl
"Babylon 5 was last of the Babylon stations. There would never be
another. It changed the future and it changed us. It taught us that we
have to create the future or others will do it for us. It taught us
that we have to care for one other, because if we don't, who will? And
that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely of places.
Mostly though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new
beginnings, even for people like us." - Susan Ivanova

Huh. She quotes something, and cites, not the creator of the series or scriptwriter (one and the same in that case) but the character who speaks it.

So when I say that there were no definitive rules in fandom in the spring of 2001 regarding how to properly cite, I'm not lying or trying to obfuscate-after-the-fact.

And now I am putting it all away through the weekend...