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blakes7-d Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 8

Today's Topics:
	 [B7L] Seattle Regional Blake-a-thon
	 [B7L] Re: Newcomer alert
	 Re: [B7L] Sex-- slash mode
	 Re: [B7L] Search Engines
	 Re: [B7L] Sex-- slash mode
	 Re: [B7L] Sex-- slash mode
	 [B7L] Harvest, F to M ratio, etc.
	 [B7L] No Josette or Glynis?
	 [B7L] What Pushed Avon over the edge?
	 [B7L] Travis's Revenge!
	 [B7L] re[B7]: No Josette or Glynis
	 Re:[B7L] Avon's pet
	 Re:[B7L]Children of Auron
	 [B7L] Jackie's flick
	 [B7L] PAUL DARROW ON BBC ONLINE
	 [B7L] AT&T to buy Teleport...
	 Re: [B7L] PAUL DARROW ON BBC ONLINE
	 Re: [B7L] re[B7]: No Josette or Glynis
	 Re:[B7L]Children of Auron
	 Re: Re:[B7L]Children of Auron
	 Re: [B7L] AT&T to buy Teleport...
	 [B7L] Intro
	 [B7L] AT&T -- Teleport
	 Re: [B7L] AT&T to buy Teleport...
	 Re: [B7L] Re: Dorian Crew

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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 21:38:46 EST
From: penny_kjelgaard@juno.com
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Seattle Regional Blake-a-thon
Message-ID: <19980108.183142.11031.1.Penny_Kjelgaard@juno.com>

Plans are now finalized for the next Blake Bash, to be held on Saturday, 
January 17.

Plans include:

Trivia
Food (lasagna, salad, cheese cake...)
And watching the episode "Blake" as it airs on KBTC Tacoma at 9 pm. 

Anyone interested should email me.

Now its time to sing...the tune of "Loch Loman"

I'll bring the TV and you bring the Kleenex
And we'll watch "Blake" in the even'n.
For Avon and dear Blake will never meet again.
But we'll won't stand alone in our grievin'.

Confirmed!
Penny

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:43:13 -0500
From: Harriet Monkhouse <H_F_Monkhouse@compuserve.com>
To: "Blake's 7 (Lysator)" <BLAKES7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] Re: Newcomer alert
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Matt Cherry introduced himself and said:
>I still think Sally Harrison (Lauren from Aftermath) 
>is gorgeous and looks great in that silver getup
>(too bad she had to be killed so quickly:)!

A Lauren fan!  A welcome development, I don't think I've seen one of those
before.  Pity she couldn't act, but yes, nice lass.

Harriet

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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 01:52:48 -0000
From: "Tom Forsyth" <Tom.Forsyth@btinternet.com>
To: "Blake's 7 list" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Sex-- slash mode
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Kathryn Anderson said:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 05:58:00AM +0000, s.thompson8@genie.geis.com
wrote:
> > Actually, Iain, I find your feelings about the inappropriateness of
> >  slashing B7 (or at least Blake and Avon) perfectly understandable,
> >  because I feel that way myself about another, different fandom.  I
> >  won't name it because I'm hoping against hope that the slash fans
> >  won't find it!  The original product depicts an extremely intense
> >  friendship between two men that is, however, very clearly not
> >  sexual in nature.  For me, adding sex would spoil the quality of
> >  that relationship as it is.
> 
> Now you've made me curious!  Obviously it can't be "The Sentinal" because
> the slash fans have already been there...

My money was on Due South (and what an excellent show it is too). Except
I know that hordes of slashers were drawn to it five minutes after
transmission of the first ep. And why not - it's K/S done properly, and
with a dog thrown in for the truly kinky!


Tom Forsyth

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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 01:03:46 -0000
From: "Tom Forsyth" <Tom.Forsyth@btinternet.com>
To: "B7 Lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Search Engines
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> I saw your listing on the internet.
> Get your web site(s) submitted to over 250 of the worlds best
> search engines for only $39.95!  (Yahoo, Lycos, AOL, Excite,
> Hotbot, Linkstar, Webcrawler, and hundreds others).

SPAMMMER SCUM!

Besides, all those places already know about Judith's page (I know because
I keep forgetting its address), and what more could a B7 fan want?


Tom Forsyth.

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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 21:28:10 -0800
From: Tramila Farris <cdmunoz@earthlink.net>
To: "Blake's 7 list" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Sex-- slash mode
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>> > Actually, Iain, I find your feelings about the inappropriateness of
>> >  slashing B7 (or at least Blake and Avon) perfectly understandable,
>> >  because I feel that way myself about another, different fandom.  I
>> >  won't name it because I'm hoping against hope that the slash fans
>> >  won't find it!  The original product depicts an extremely intense
>> >  friendship between two men that is, however, very clearly not
>> >  sexual in nature.  For me, adding sex would spoil the quality of
>> >  that relationship as it is.

Avon/Blake is OK but what is really great is Avon/Vila slash.
 
>> Now you've made me curious!  Obviously it can't be "The Sentinal" because
>> the slash fans have already been there...

oh YES.  Obvious from the first moment of the Pilot show.

>My money was on Due South (and what an excellent show it is too). Except
>I know that hordes of slashers were drawn to it five minutes after
>transmission of the first ep. And why not - it's K/S done properly, and
>with a dog thrown in for the truly kinky!

<giggle>  Tom, you are so funny.

Tramila

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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 21:32:41 -0800
From: Tramila Farris <cdmunoz@earthlink.net>
To: "Blake's 7 list" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Sex-- slash mode
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>> > Actually, Iain, I find your feelings about the inappropriateness of
>> >  slashing B7 (or at least Blake and Avon) perfectly understandable,
>> >  because I feel that way myself about another, different fandom.  I
>> >  won't name it because I'm hoping against hope that the slash fans
>> >  won't find it!  The original product depicts an extremely intense
>> >  friendship between two men that is, however, very clearly not
>> >  sexual in nature.  For me, adding sex would spoil the quality of
>> >  that relationship as it is.

Avon/Blake is OK but what is really great is Avon/Vila slash.
 
>> Now you've made me curious!  Obviously it can't be "The Sentinal" because
>> the slash fans have already been there...

oh YES.  Obvious from the first moment of the Pilot show.

>My money was on Due South (and what an excellent show it is too). Except
>I know that hordes of slashers were drawn to it five minutes after
>transmission of the first ep. And why not - it's K/S done properly, and
>with a dog thrown in for the truly kinky!

<giggle>  Tom, you are so funny.

Tramila

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Date: Fri,  9 Jan 98 06:10:00 GMT 
From: s.thompson8@genie.geis.com
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Harvest, F to M ratio, etc.
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Tom Forsyth said of "Harvest of Kairos:"

>So the use of lunar module to carry 5 people off a planet with at least
 >0.9G (as opposed to the 2 it was designed to carry, off an airless planet
 >with 0.2G, and then only to reach a low orbit) didn't strike you as having
 >a high hide-behind-the-couch-not-because-its-scary-but-from-sheer-
>embarrassment quotient then? Or the utter rubbish about the semi-sentient
>rock? And exactly why didn't the people on the Liberator just look at the
>Lunar Lander on the screen and say "Oh - it's a Lunar Lander, circa 1969.
>Sod the historical interest, blat it!"

My theory about the lunar lander is that it was not the real thing at all
but a historical recreationist's toy, a modern vehicle made to look like an
old one, rather like the buses disguised as 19th-C. trolley cars that one
sometimes sees used as tourist transport.  As to how such a thing wound up
abandoned on Kairos, well, perhaps there was a plan to develop the place as
a resort planet back before they found out about the bugs and the Kairopan.

The lengths some fans will go to to explain away stupid glitches! :)

And Jarvik did, as I recall, look at the thing on the screen and pooh-pooh
it; but he was overruled by Servalan, who believed the warnings coming from
the computers whose sensors had been bamboozled by the Sopron.  Hmm-- could
we postulate that Zen suspected what was really going on but wanted its
previous crew back and so passed on the false readings to Servalan without
comment?

Matt Cherry said:

>Good evening everyone!  <introduction snipped>

Hi, Matt.  Welcome aboard.  Are you any relation to David the artist and C.
J. the SF writer?

Penny said:

>Dorian and Carnell on the same ship???
 >
 >///// Slash Alert! /////

It's a pretty thought, and I don't believe it's ever been done.  Do blonds
have more fun?  Or is there some unwritten rule against it, like the
notorious Curl Rule that supposedly rules out Blake/Tarrant (not that that
has stopped a few people)?

Julia Jones said:

>While there's been an underlying assumption that slash is written by
 >women (which the majority is, so far as I can tell), I don't think
 >anybody has yet suggested that men shouldn't write it. (And I should
 >hope not - I've enjoyed most of the male written stuff I've seen, even
 >that which does not appeal to me sexually).

Carol "Hondo" Mason said:

>I have not entered into this debate at all. But without over analysing the
 >issue I would have thought that the quality of the story and the way the
 >characters are depicted would rest more with the authors talent or flair
>for writing , rather than with what gender the author happens to be.
 >I have read some very good slash ( m/m ) fan fiction and I was totally
>blown away to find that it had been written by a male ( a straight male )

Just out of curiousity, I did a quick, rough check of the author lists I'm
keeping for fan stories published in paper zines.  For gen stories, I have
about 550 different authors' names of which about 60 are clearly male--
slightly over ten percent, with perhaps a few more among the ambiguous names
and initials.  For erotica, both het adult and slash, I have around 300
mostly pseudonymous authors of whom there are exactly four I can identify as
male-- slightly over one percent.  There may be a few more male writers of
erotica under pseuds I don't know about, and I know that there are more male
writers who have published electronically but not on paper and so aren't
counted here.  Still, it seems pretty clear that so far male writers are a
small minority in B7 gen fiction and a miniscule one in erotica.

This does not, of course, imply anything one way or another about the
quality of their work or the ways in which it may or may not differ from the
work of female writers.

Sarah Thompson

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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 22:59:00 PST
From: "Matt Cherry" <mattcherry@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] No Josette or Glynis?
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I was wondering why neither Josette Simon or Glynis Brber lent their 
voice talents to the recent Blake's 7 audio play(the name escapes me at 
the moment). Also is the Angela Bruce who does Dayna's voice in the play 
the same Angela Bruce who played Deb Lister in the "Parallel Universe" 
episode of Red Dwarf and Brigadier Bambera in the "Battlefield" episode 
of Doctor Who?

Thanks,

Matt
  

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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 23:08:18 PST
From: "Matt Cherry" <mattcherry@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] What Pushed Avon over the edge?
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 I agree with the comments of many of you that by the time of Avon's 
tragic showdown with Blake in the final episode he had become 
obsessively parnoid and distrustful.I was wondering what all of you 
throught what proved to be the main factor in making him this way. I've 
narrowed it down to three reasonsin order of importance in my opinion.

A: Anna Grant's betrayal of him.

B: The disappointment he felt after learning that his "reunion" with 
Blake in "Terminal" was merely a trap by Servalan.

C: Just a general bitterness and depression over a realization that 
despite all his claims of "I don't need you Blake.....one day the others 
will not follow you....i can be a better leader...blah blah blah in 
virtually every episode of seasons 1 and 2, that Blake in fact WAS the 
better leader, and enjoyed a great deal more success over the Federation 
when he was at the helm of the rebellion than Avon ever did.

Just ant to get all of your thoughts on it.

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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 23:31:46 PST
From: "Matt Cherry" <mattcherry@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Travis's Revenge!
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 Just finished rewatching season 2 and i can't help but think that 
Blake's attempt to prove the 7 were still a force to be reckoned with 
following the death of Gan by opening fire on Space Command HQ was the 
WORST thing Blake could have done, under the circumstances. However, 
it's also one of the most important actions in the series, because it 
affects the storyline up to the end.

While it caused considerable damage to HQ and presumably left Starkiller 
Samon, Rontane, Bercol. and other important Federation big wigs  to the 
same death poor Nova suffred way back in "Space Fall", Travis was freed, 
setting off a chain of direct and indirect events in the process. 
Travis' unexplained and at times confusing presence severely hampers the 
search for Star One in Voice From The Past(Eeeeeeez eeeeet Blaaaaaake), 
Gambit, and The Keeper, making it a lot harder to take care of the 
business of blowing up Central Control than it could have been. He then 
sells out all of human kind to the Andromedans and theie space fleet of 
kitchenware! This in turn leads to the Intergalactic War and the 
destruction of Star One at a time Blake admitted it was needed.  While 
the war destoys 80 percent of the Federation's fleet and leaves it at 
its weakest, it also results in the crew of the Liberator being 
scattered throughout the universe, losing Blake and Jenna for good and 
forcing the Crew Mach 2 to fumble around for 2 seasons under the 
unstable leadership of Avon (IMHO. All this so Blake can flex his 
muscles! The resulting freedom of Travis is a huge blunder, and in the 
end, it appears good ole eyepatch really does win out. The Federation he 
had worked so hard and ruthlessly for that turned his back on him was 
dealt a serious blow and his most hated foe ended up dying at the hands 
of a man he had "trusted from the very beginning". There's a chance that 
the Liberator/Scorpio crew at it's peak in my opinion(From Trial to Star 
One) could have remained intact and found some way of overrunning the 
Federation without needing a costly alien invasion to do it from them. 

All this from a small neutron blaster strike at Space Command HQ,

Thanks, 
Matt


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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 09:48:31 -0800
From: Jackie <jackiew@termlow.co.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] re[B7]: No Josette or Glynis
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Matt Cherry wrote:
> 
> I was wondering why neither Josette Simon or Glynis Brber lent their
> voice talents to the recent Blake's 7 audio play(the name escapes me at
> the moment). 

They were both touring in plays, I believe.

>Also is the Angela Bruce who does Dayna's voice in the play
> the same Angela Bruce who played Deb Lister in the "Parallel Universe"
> episode of Red Dwarf and Brigadier Bambera in the "Battlefield" episode
> of Doctor Who?
>

I think so.

Does anyone else think it strange that the casting department of a RADIO 
play brought in a Blonde actress to play Soolin, and a Black actress to 
play Dayna? or was it purely coincidental? or might it be that the Gods 
of the BBC are thinking of putting on a TV programme of B7, and wanted 
people who were not too dissimilar in looks to the originals?  Nah!

Bye for now
Jackie

 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 13:05:28 -0800
From: "J. I. Horner" <jihorner@dial.pipex.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
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On 8 Jan Jackie wrote :
<Told you, Avon should have a pet, it reduces stress levels, and you live
longer.>

Of course that set me wondering what sort of pet Avon would choose. The 
initial reaction was a big, sleek and elegant black cat.

However, then I heard this (semi-)interesting thing on Radio 4 about 
Gilbert White (Natural History of Selborne). Apparently he had a large 
tortoise called Timothy. The narrator of the programme was expounding his 
theory that people who keep tortoises will tend to be the sort who shut 
out the rest of the world - or keep it at a distance - as if they 
themselves were wearing a large protective shell.

I can easily see Avon with a tortoise. Its a practical pet for a space 
ship as it does not make much mess and needs little exercise. Also I 
would have thought the air of quiet reflective wisdom would appeal to 
Avon.

Anyway that's my theory - anyone else with pet ideas?

Julie Horner

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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 13:16:35 -0800
From: "J. I. Horner" <jihorner@dial.pipex.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re:[B7L]Children of Auron
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I have just watched 'Children of Auron' again and that last scene, the 
nursery of 5000 comment, well it makes you realise that it wouldn't work 
would it?

The planet they were going to was uninhabited so the raising of those 
infants was down to just two people initially. No way could they raise 
5000 all at one go. My sister has triplets and the fall out from that 
litter would turn your hair white so 5000 - really!

Of course they would have to defrost them in batches, but they would need 
to be very small batches - no more than six or seven a year is my guess. 
And of course second and subsequent years you would be able to 'deliver' 
even fewer as you would still have all the one-year olds to deal with.

By the time the first lot were old enough to help out their would still 
only be a very small number. I expect you could do a mathematical 
simulation to work out how long it would take to bring them all up but I 
expect the first generation would have started to die off before they 
were all born.

And surely when they started to reach adulthood they would prefer to 
replenish the Auron stock by more natural means?

Of course, maybe the Aurons are really clever and have found a way of 
gestating feotuss (what is the plural of feotus?) until they are about 
five so they come out fully toilet trained and reciting the alphabet but 
even so...


Julie Horner

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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 03:33:45 +1100
From: Fran Myers <algemy@ozemail.com.au>
To: B7 <blake7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] Jackie's flick
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Jackie asked for the title of the film I refered to - "Sky Wide and
Crooked" was the English title.  It's not listed under that name in the
video reference book.

Rhonda was upset at the idea of a plump JP - just teenage plumpness in
the face, before those wonderful bones started to show.  Not quite the
svelte pussycat she became.

Fran

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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:31:59 -0000
From: "Andrew Sewell" <Andrew.Sewell@beeb.com>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] PAUL DARROW ON BBC ONLINE
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the internet! So if you want to know the inside story about how he =
recreated his role, or hear an exclusive about the show's future, don't =
delay and post your questions right here =
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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 14:01:06 -0500 (EST)
From: adering@ziplink.net (Alex Dering)
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] AT&T to buy Teleport...
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I was sitting at the dining room table reading the NY Times and the
headline: AT&T to buy Teleport for $11.4 Billion (or some such figure)
caught my eye. The first thing I thought was, of course, Oh Wow! They've
finally got matter transportation. And AT&T is going to own it. Blake's 7,
and insidious thing in my life.

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fleeting, experience treacherous, and
judgement difficult.

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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:11:55 +0100 (MET)
From: gwr@easynet.co.uk (Gareth Randall)
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] PAUL DARROW ON BBC ONLINE
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>...or hear an exclusive about the show's future...

Let me guess - if this play goes down well, there *might* possibly be more.
Radio plays, that is.

Cynical or what? =;-)

Gareth
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gwr

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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:24:03 +0100 (MET)
From: gwr@easynet.co.uk (Gareth Randall)
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] re[B7]: No Josette or Glynis
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>> I was wondering why neither Josette Simon or Glynis Brber lent their
>> voice talents to the recent Blake's 7 audio play(the name escapes me at
>> the moment). 

>They were both touring in plays, I believe.

I may be remembering incorrectly here, but aren't Josette and Glynis among
that coterie of performers from cult TV shows who prefer to disassociate
themselves from said programme(s)? I have to say that I wasn't surprised
when I learned that they weren't going to be involved.

>>Also is the Angela Bruce who does Dayna's voice in the play
>> the same Angela Bruce who played Deb Lister in the "Parallel Universe"
>> episode of Red Dwarf and Brigadier Bambera in the "Battlefield" episode
>> of Doctor Who?

Yes. It couldn't be anyone else; Equity rules forbid two different actors
sharing the same name.

>Does anyone else think it strange that the casting department of a RADIO 
>play brought in a Blonde actress to play Soolin, and a Black actress to 
>play Dayna? 

The Soolin thing was probably just coincidental, but the Dayna situation
wouldn't have been. BBC radio has a long-standing policy of hiring people
from the ethnic group appropriate to the role.

Gareth
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gwr

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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 15:46:56 -0500
From: Cecilia <elric01@raex.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re:[B7L]Children of Auron
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At 01:16 PM 1/9/98 -0800, J. I. Horner wrote:
>
>And surely when they started to reach adulthood they would prefer to 
>replenish the Auron stock by more natural means?
>
>Of course, maybe the Aurons are really clever and have found a way of 
>gestating feotuss (what is the plural of feotus?) until they are about 
>five so they come out fully toilet trained and reciting the alphabet but 
>even so...
>
Actually, they probably would wish to replenish the stock "naturally", but
the frozen embryos would still provide more genetic diversity.  It has been
YEARS since my last biology class - I can't seem to remember the threshold
number needed to prevent in-breeding in humans?  Any of you younger (and
therefore closer to your school days) persons remember?  

Lady C., the Anceunt One
feeling entirely TOO chatty today

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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 22:16:48 -0000
From: Alison Page <alison@alisonpage.demon.co.uk>
To: Lysator <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: Re:[B7L]Children of Auron
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Lady C said

> Actually, they probably would wish to replenish the stock "naturally",
but
> the frozen embryos would still provide more genetic diversity.  It has
been
> YEARS since my last biology class - I can't seem to remember the
threshold
> number needed to prevent in-breeding in humans?  Any of you younger (and
> therefore closer to your school days) persons remember?  

well I'm not young, but I seem to recall someone telling me the threshold
was about 200 - which sounds kinda reasonable. I know they have trouble
with captive breeding programs when the population of captive animals gets
too low. But to be 'safe' and after all that's a big consideration when you
are talking about human well-being, you would need quite a bit more I would
imagine. I *wish* more SF writers would understand biological facts like
this as well as hard science.

> feeling entirely TOO chatty today

Nonsense woman

Alison

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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 09:31:55 +1100
From: Kathryn Andersen <kat@welkin.apana.org.au>
To: "Blake's 7 list" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] AT&T to buy Teleport...
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On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 02:01:06PM -0500, Alex Dering wrote:
> I was sitting at the dining room table reading the NY Times and the
> headline: AT&T to buy Teleport for $11.4 Billion (or some such figure)
> caught my eye. The first thing I thought was, of course, Oh Wow! They've
> finally got matter transportation. And AT&T is going to own it. Blake's 7,
> and insidious thing in my life.

I was just re-reading the Doctor Who Missing Adventure "Cold Fusion", and
there's a bit where the Doctor is explaining to Tegan about transport...

	"These days, on most worlds, people travel using transmats -
matter transmitters that teleport -"
	"It's all right, Doctor, I've seen Blake's 7."
						(Cold Fusion, p140)
So, does that make Lance Parkin a fan? (-8

Kathryn Andersen
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Cally: We must help these people.
Avon: Must we?  Personally, I don't care if their whole planet turns into
	a mushroom.  I shall stay because I don't like an unsolved mystery.
				(Blake's 7: Mission To Destinys [A7])
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/      \    | 		http://connexus.apana.org.au/~kat
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Maranatha!  |	-> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe

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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 15:07:06 -0800
From: Tramila Farris <cdmunoz@earthlink.net>
To: "Blake's 7 list" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] Intro
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Hi!  I'm Tramila and I've been a long time B7 fan. (ie more than 5
years....a drop in the bucket for some of you others.  <g>)

Although I have already replied to one post, I plan to lurk for a while
since I have no clue what are dead horses on this list.

I'm glad to be here.

Tramila Farris ambrov Zeor

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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 16:30:00 -0800
From: "PATTI McCLELLAN" <patti.mcclellan@kyl.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
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          I thought it was common knowledge that Avon bought out AT&T
          with the proceeds he got from selling out everyone else at
          Gauda Prime.

          Now, don't crucify me yet, I just got here.  My name is
          Patti and I've been a B7 fan for about 5 years now.  I was
          thinking though, that perhaps he didn't sell out EVERYONE
          else.  Perhaps AT&T now stands for Avon, Tarrant & T______
          (suggestions?)

          Anyway, I've been enjoying your posts for several days now,
          and couldn't resist this one.  Everyone have a glorious
          weekend.

          Patti

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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:25:18 +0100 (MET)
From: gwr@easynet.co.uk (Gareth Randall)
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] AT&T to buy Teleport...
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>> I was sitting at the dining room table reading the NY Times and the
>> headline: AT&T to buy Teleport for $11.4 Billion (or some such figure)
>> caught my eye.

The TV company I work for, NBC Europe, gets American NBC programmes sent via
satellite every day from the Washington International Teleport. I don't know
if that's the same thing, but it's pretty cool to hear that programme X is
"being teleported over this afternoon"!

Gareth
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gwr

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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 19:49:56 -0800
From: Pat Patera <pussnboots@geocities.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Dorian Crew
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penny_kjelgaard@juno.com wrote:
> Dorian and Carnell on the same ship???
> ///// Slash Alert! /////

Surely it's been done!
Can anyone name the story and zine?
Pat P

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