>
>
>*Hai!  Hai!  Does the name Hitomi Ichinohei mean anything to you?
>
> >I'd wager less than 10 people here remember Hitomi from the ML proper,
> >though more might be familiar with the name from the "Clothes Make the Man"
> >fanfic collaboration with NightElf.
>
> >Regardless, and although it's been many years since he was on the ML, I
> >don't remember him being treated that badly here.  I heard there was some
> >kind of fallout on the *FF*ML, and possibly a newsgroup or two.  I suppose
> >I can check the archives for early-mid 1997 to see for certain.
>
>-Bradster
>
>I suppose it is a matter of perspective.  I was told that Hitomi-San was
>RIDICULED off the ML because of intollerance, as I was ALSO told that
>Hitomi-San was a transsexual.

I might have heard this, but the person who explained everything (Ken 
Arromdee, IIRC) is no longer on the list to cross-examine.  I vaguely 
remember hearing that most of the ridicule (wherever the source) came from 
the fact that "Hitomi" herself was a completely fabricated character, down 
to where she lived, what she'd done with her life, what she knew-- most of 
what got her respect in the first place.

I'd be pissed too if someone had been feeding me nothing but B.S. for 
however many months.


>I had not realized that there was also a "fan-fic" ML as well...  The person
>who told me all about Hitomi-San (who will not be named here) is someone who
>is quite respected in Ranma Fandom.  If I said the name, you would know them
>immediately.


Depends on how big they are.  I stopped reading fanfiction about a year ago.

But the FFML may or may not be an offshoot of this ML, considering how many 
fanfic writers called it home in its dim past.  The Archives list John 
Biles, James Stone and Hitomi on back in '95 (not to mention other big 
names like Toshifumi Yoshida, Dov Sherman, Kevin Lew, Thomas Cardwell, etc...)


-Bradster