Lots of people cycled in and out of the SF-LOVERS mailing list. Some people stayed around for years, some flamed out fast, this list is a way of keeping track of the long-time SFL Archives posters and the ones of historic value.
Lauren W. @ UCLA-Security:
Lauren W. was one of the earliest recorded posters in the SF-LOVERS mailing list(They had post #7(?) in SFL Vol 01). Lauren W. had a vast knowledge of SF-related TV series & and movies & radio broadcasts, and posted complete episode guides for at least 4 different SF tv-series 18 yrs+ before WIKPEDIA & IMDB existed. Lauren W. started up a prototype Nick @ Nite block of programming for a local SF Bay television channel roughly 1.5 yrs before Nick @ Nite launched globally in July 1985.The movie WARGAMES 1983 made Lauren W. meltdown spectacularly hard over 3+ months ranting about how Wargames 1983 was terrible/inaccurate/making light of their 1980's computer-security job. Lauren W. never recovered from their Wargames 1983 movie meltdown and stopped posting in the SFL Archives sometime in mid 1984.
Robert L. Forward:
AKA Doctor Robert Lull Forward, SF author of 1980 book DRAGONS EGG, and 1984 book ROCHEWORLD (aka FLIGHT OF THE DRAGONFLY in it's original serialized version).
First posted on the SF-LOVERS mailing list to workshop out some calculations for an upcoming SF story, then shared clarifying details on his DRAGONS EGG story. (SFL Vol 01)
Next appearance in SF-LOVERS was to clarify and defend comments by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle about "writing without editing their work", while making an opposing humblebrag that "Poul Anderson and me both agonize over each word at least 6 or 8 times before the final draft is sent into the publishers." (SFL Vol 01)
Robert Forward's follow-up appearances in 1980 were to promote the acting career of his daughter-in-law and lovingly doxx his son, Robert D. Forward, who it turns out also posts/posted in the SF-LOVERS mailing list.
Last seen circa 1983 trying to find a CAD (Computer Aided Design) person willing to draw-out the "Christmas tree bush" modular robot of ROCHEWORLD for the upcoming hardcover/paperback of release of ROCHEWORLD.
RODOF:
Posted to the SF-LOVERS mailing list using the handle RODOF. First post in the SFL Archives was about the X-rated movie Caligula and TASERS.
RODOFF proposed and workshopped out the 1st version of the SF-LOVERS t-shirt, used by SF-LOVERS readers to self-identify each other at SF&F conventions, conferences, and parties.
Final RODOF appearance in SFL Archives was making a series of posts about [Subject: Hymen Hijinx...in Dragonslayer 1981]. Everywhere you think those RODOF posts probably went re: [Subject: Hymen Hijinx...in Dragonslayer 1981], Yes, you are correct.
RODOF last post in the SFL Archives was a final edgelord "I wasn't being serious in my earlier posts [Subject: Hymen Hijinx...in Dragonslayer 1981], I was only joking BUT...." circa December 1981
Jerry Pournelle:
Mil-fiction author slash Libertarian author slash Mil-Scifi author slash Political Science PhD.
All posts by Jerry Pournelle in the SFL Archives were exclusively self-promotion teasers about Pournelle's latest upcoming book/upcoming co-authored books (which were usually Larry Niven team-ups).
Jerry Pournelle lost their ARPANET access in 1983, and as per 2nd hand rumor in 1985, still "refuses to suck up to the <Information Technology/Computer Science> post-grad" to get their ARPANET access back.
Marvin Minsky: --WORK IN PROGRESS--
Don Woods: --WORK IN PROGRESS--
DolphinF**ker: --WORK IN PROGRESS--
Chip Hitchcock: Reformed Internet troll --WORK IN PROGRESS--
Richard Stallman: --WORK IN PROGRESS--
unicorn-goat meltdown man: --WORK IN PROGRESS--
Evelyn C. Leeper + Mark Leeper: sister & brother duo or wife & husband duo --WORK IN PROGRESS--
Alastair Milne: Internet troll, specialty: recursive Death of the Author arguments
Showed up in the SFL Archives around 1986.
LORD OF THE RINGS is the hill Alastair Milne dies on, defending Alastair Milne's point of view on Lord of the Rings/Tolkienian lore vs EVERYONE ELSE. That list of "everyone else" includes J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, and the Tolkien Literary Estate.
Alastair Milne somehow thinks they are the only person in the world to have stumbled across the 1967 essay "THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR" and is is deploying secret unbeatable tactics anytime Alastair Milne uses arguments from Death of the Author.
As of May 1987, Alastair Milne has started pulling the same bullshit they did re: LotR/Tolkienian lore regarding C.S. Lewis and the NARNIA series.
Tim Maroney: Internet troll, specialty: Never actually reading the stories they flamebait comment on
Tim Maroney loved to pull this tactic on Robert Anson Heinlein fans, and RAH fans always took this bait and went insane defending any weakness of writing/sexual perversion/libertarian hero bias/inability to write female viewpoints. Maroney eventually ran out of Heinlein stories to comment on.
As of October 1987 has started making constant flamebait takes on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION in the hopes that other SFLer's respond.
Last updated 10-18-2020
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