Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Fan Trivia
Three of the major Daria fan message boards that have closed down, and the webmasters of each of the sites. (Some of this information is from USENET and the essay "An Appeal for Sanity" by Rey Fox.
Katherine Goodman -- former operator of the Planet Daria message board. (Rumor has it that you should not mention Daria fandom to her at all, unless you want your head chewed off.)
Roweena Stubbs -- former operator of the alt.lawndale.com message board. College more or less forced her into retirement, but she complained of attacks by insensitive fans.
Michelle Klein-Hass -- former operator of the Lawndale Commons Message Board. She gives her reasons for retirement in the post below.
I don't think there were any other major sites that have shut down. Martin Pollard had a message board, but since no other fans speak of it with fondness, it probably didn't have as much traffic as the other three.
Goodman and Stubbs have definitely GAFIAted. Ms. Klein-Hass still haunts alt.tv.daria, and I'm sure she can be reached there.
# posted by James @ 2:43 PM 
