chatsite

— I have been vaguely aware of them almost since their inception—my permission was informally sought and cheerfully given, back in 1989 (on the sole condition that nobody else would commercially pub- lish fiction involving the Place or its denizens)—and from time to time, over the years, some fan would send along a few dozen pages of printout from one or another of these newsgroups or chatsites or home pages.